{"product_id":"penses-9780140446456","title":"Pensées","description":"\u003cp\u003eA passionate defence of religious faith by the great seventeenth-century philosopher, mathematician and physicist \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlaise Pascal was the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. The \u003ci\u003ePensées\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of philosophical fragments, notes and essays in which he explores the contradictions of human nature in psychological, social, metaphysical and, above all, theological terms. Humankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but also as a being whose existence can be transformed through faith in God's grace. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated with an Introduction by A. J. Krailsheimer\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Blaise Pascal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1995\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 368\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.82h x 5.08w x 0.87d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780140446456\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAudience:\u003c\/b\u003e Young Adult\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBlaise Pascal\u003c\/b\u003e was born in Clermont in 1623, the son of a government official. During his short life he left his mark on mathematics, physics, religious controversy and literature. A convert to Jansenism, he engaged with gusto in a controversy with the Jesuits, which gave rise to his \u003ci\u003eLettres Provinciales\u003c\/i\u003eon which, with the \u003ci\u003ePensées\u003c\/i\u003e, his literary fame chiefly rests. A remarkable stylist, he is regarded by many as the greatest of French prose artists. He died, after a long illness, in 1662.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. A.J. Krailsheimer\u003c\/b\u003e was born in 1921 and was Tutor in French at Christ Church, Oxford, from 1957 until his retirement in 1988. His publications are \u003ci\u003eStudies in Self-Interest \u003c\/i\u003e(1963), \u003ci\u003eRabelais and the Franciscans \u003c\/i\u003e(1965), \u003ci\u003eThree Conteurs of the Sixteenth Century\u003c\/i\u003e (1966), \u003ci\u003eRabelais (1967)\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA. J. de Rancé, Abbot of La Trappe\u003c\/i\u003e (1974), \u003ci\u003ePascal\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), \u003ci\u003eConversion\u003c\/i\u003e (1980), \u003ci\u003e Letters of A. J. de Rancé\u003c\/i\u003e (1984), \u003ci\u003eRancé and the Trappist Legacy\u003c\/i\u003e (1985) and \u003ci\u003eCorrespondance de Rancé\u003c\/i\u003e (1993). He has also translated Flaubert's \u003ci\u003eBouvard and Pécuchet\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSalammbo\u003c\/i\u003e and Pascal's \u003ci\u003eThe Provincial Letters\u003c\/i\u003e for the Penguin Classics.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Ingram","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44974789689558,"sku":"9780140446456","price":13.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0672\/1660\/5398\/products\/img_0c57a508-f617-4d65-80fc-839e72466537.jpg?v=1707831732","url":"https:\/\/bookclubonmain.com\/products\/penses-9780140446456","provider":"Book Club On Main","version":"1.0","type":"link"}