{"product_id":"discourses-of-the-fall-a-study-of-pascals-penszses-9780520055407","title":"Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées","description":"\"Here is a unique and penetrating postmodernist invitation to reread Pascal's Pens es. With a full control on two centuries of Pascalian hermeneutics, Sara Melzer leads her readers into a passionate quest far beyond the worn-out search for a paleontological reconstruction of the Pens es's hypothetical final form. She rightly and deeply understands Pascal's writing-- criture--as the complex story of the \"Fall of Truth into language.\" Such a perspective gives to Pascal's fragments a rejuvenated life, a newness, a dramatic and powerful voice for our own culture. In brief, a welcome breeze of fresh air in the Pascalian world \"--Edouard Morot-Sir, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill \"By approaching Pascal's Pens es from the point of view of contemporary critical theory, Melzer sheds new light on this well-known work. Her argument is clear, lucid, and cogent. She has a firm grasp of the major issues at stake in debates among literary critics. I think this is an important work that will be of interest not only to Pascal specialists but also to people who work in the general area of literary theory. . . . One of the genuine strengths of the book is the author's ability to discern the theological implications of issues that preoccupy literary theorists. This is particularly important at a time when students of theology and religion are becoming more and more interested in literary theory. They will find this analysis of Pascal very suggestive.\"--Mark Taylor, Williams College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sara E. Melzer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/17\/1986\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries:\u003c\/b\u003e Study of Pascal's Pensees\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 184\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520055407","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43211656495241,"sku":"9780520055407","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_ecb77bad-ee76-48b6-8ff3-178b1b38c120.jpg?v=1734427998","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/discourses-of-the-fall-a-study-of-pascals-penszses-9780520055407","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}