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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 (1623-62) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, show more 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. show lessTags
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Still flipping through. Like most Cambridge companions, relatively solid. This one (so far) has not been spectacular. I hoped for more juice from Tony McKenna's essay on Pascal's historical reception (it's fine scholarship), and there's more on Pascal's science than I want (not their fault). I will return to this review when I have read more, but my overall assessment is that this is not a volume that captures the *excitement* Pascal generates -- his seeing eye, his austerity, his wit. That's a tall order for a Cambridge Companion, and probably not anything I have a right to expect (12.21.07)
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- The Cambridge Companion to Pascal
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- 2003
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- Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662
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