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N2  - The life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological, theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this portrait, the author restores Pascal to the general reader after twenty years of scholarship that has embroiled this historic thinker in academic quarrels. Robert Nelson confronts the contradictions in Pascal's life and personality: intensely religious according to the demands of his time, yet simultaneously committed to rigorous scientific inquiry, no matter where it led; fascinated by rebellion, yet deeply dependent on the authority of father, spiritual adviser, church, and science. Mr. Nelson sees the resolution of these personal dilemmas in Pascal's growing interest in language--the essential relation between word and object, signifier and signified, which form a style of "Pascalian linguistics" different from those of Descartes or Port Royal. Through the scrutiny of Pascal's biography and analysis of the entire body of his writing, Nelson reveals Pascal the man, the scientist, the theologian, and the literary genius.
DO  - 10.4159/harvard.9780674182912
DO  - doi
AB  - The life of the paradoxical seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician is examined here along three axes--psychological, theological, and linguistic--to present the first rounded portrayal of the querulous, intense, ever-committed Pascal. In drawing this portrait, the author restores Pascal to the general reader after twenty years of scholarship that has embroiled this historic thinker in academic quarrels. Robert Nelson confronts the contradictions in Pascal's life and personality: intensely religious according to the demands of his time, yet simultaneously committed to rigorous scientific inquiry, no matter where it led; fascinated by rebellion, yet deeply dependent on the authority of father, spiritual adviser, church, and science. Mr. Nelson sees the resolution of these personal dilemmas in Pascal's growing interest in language--the essential relation between word and object, signifier and signified, which form a style of "Pascalian linguistics" different from those of Descartes or Port Royal. Through the scrutiny of Pascal's biography and analysis of the entire body of his writing, Nelson reveals Pascal the man, the scientist, the theologian, and the literary genius.
T1  - Pascal :Adversary and Advocate /
AU  - Nelson, Robert J., 
ET  - Reprint 2014
JF  - HUP e-dition: Complete eBook Package
JF  - HUP e-dition: Literature eBook Package
JF  - HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
EP  - ZDB-23-HCO
EP  - ZDB-23-HLI
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
ID  - 1476772
KW  - Aufsatzsammlung.
KW  - Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft.
KW  - Literatur.
KW  - Literature.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / General.
KW  - Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.
KW  - RELIGION / General.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Science & Technology.
SN  - 9780674182912
TI  - Pascal :Adversary and Advocate /
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