{"product_id":"discourses-of-the-fall-a-study-of-pascals-pensees-hardcover","title":"Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSara E. Melzer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSara E. Melzer\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of French and Francophone Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eDiscourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées\u003c\/i\u003e and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eFrom the Royal to the Republican Body: Incorporating the Political in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 184\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 17, 1986\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755025826080,"sku":"9780520055407","price":104.31,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/3142028071d824d4a4b4e48ce640c62b.webp?v=1780048615","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/discourses-of-the-fall-a-study-of-pascals-pensees-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}