The Cambridge Companion to Pascal

✍ Scribed by Nicholas Hammond

• Book ID: 127452878
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Category: Library
• City: Cambridge, UK; New York
• ISBN-13: 9780521809245

✦ Synopsis

Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. A team of leading scholars surveys the range of his achievement and intellectual background as well as the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find a convenient and accessible guide to Pascal and advanced students and specialists, a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of his works.