Pensees and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)

Pascal, Blaise; Levi, Anthony [Editor]; Levi, Honor [Translator];

ISBN 10: 0192836552 / ISBN 13: 9780192836557

Published by Oxford University Press, 1995

About this Item

[From the library of noted scholar William E. Connolly.] Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Scattered underlining and markings by Connolly. "William E. Connolly is Krieger-Eisenhower Professor in the political science department at Hopkins where he teaches political theory. His early book, The Terms of Political Discourse, was awarded the Benjamin Lippincott Award in 1999 as 'a work of exceptional quality that is still considered significant at least 15 years after publication.' In a poll of American political theorists published in PS in 2010, he was ranked the fourth most influential political theorist in America over the last twenty years, after Rawls, Habermas, and Foucault. His work focuses on the issues of democratic pluralism, capitalism, inequality, fascism, and bumpy intersections between capitalism and planetary amplifiers in climate change." - Johns Hopkins University.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pensees and Other Writings (Oxford World's Classics)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192836552
• ISBN 13: 9780192836557
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Good
• Weight: 6 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

About this title

Synopsis

For much of his life, Pascal (1623-62) worked on a magnum opus which was never published in the form the philosopher intended. Instead, Pascal left a mass of fragments, some of them meant as notes for the Apologie. These became known as the Pensées, and they occupy a crucial place in Western philosophy and religious writing. This translation is the only one based on the Pensées as Pascal left them. It includes the principal dossiers classified by Pascal, as well as the essential portion of his important Writings on Grace.

About the Author

Honor Levi is a teacher at St Leonard's School, St Andrew's, Fife. Anthony Levi is a retired Professor of French at St Andrews.