The Cambridge Companion to Pascal

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Nicholas Hammond (Reader in French Early Modern Theatre and Thought, University of Cambridge)

The Cambridge Companion to Pascal

Nicholas Hammond (Reader in French Early Modern Theatre and Thought, University of Cambridge)

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Cambridge University Press
17 April 2003

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; History of ideas

Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. In this volume a team of leading scholars presents the full range of Pascal's achievement and surveys the intellectual background of his thought and the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Pascal currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Pascal.

Edited by: Nicholas Hammond (Reader in French Early Modern Theatre and Thought University of Cambridge)
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 17mm
Weight: 580g
ISBN: 9780521809245
ISBN 10: 052180924X
Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 17 April 2003
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Introduction; 1. Pascal's life and times Ben Rogers; 2. Pascal's reading and the inheritance of Montaigne and Descartes Henry Phillips; 3. Pascal's work on probability A. W. F. Edwards; 4. Pascal and decision theory Jon Elster; 5. Pascal's Physics Daniel Fouke; 6. Pascal's Philosophy of Science Desmond M. Clarke; 7. Pascal's theory of knowledge Jean Khalfa; 8. Grace and religious belief in Pascal Michael Moriarty; 9. Pascal and Holy Writ David Wetsel; 10. Pascal's Lettres provinciales: from flippancy to fundamentals Richard Parish; 11. Pascal and the social world Hélène Bouchilloux; 12. Pascal and philosophical method Pierre Force; 13. Pascal's Pensées and the art of persuasion Nicholas Hammond; 14. The reception of Pascal's Pensées in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Antony McKenna.

Nicholas Hammond is Senior Lecturer at the Department of French, Cambridge University and Director of Studies in Modern Languages at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Reviews for The Cambridge Companion to Pascal

'A treasure trove for the Pascal enthusiast.' Scientific and Medical Network Review 'There can be no doubt that the Cambridge Companions series serves a very useful purpose. ... Fouke's and Clarke's essays do the work that a historian might expect. ... a good bibliography ... there is certainly enough interest in this book to make it worth the attention of the historian of science.' British Journal of the History of Science