{"product_id":"discourses-of-the-fall-9780520352902","title":"Discourses of the Fall","description":"\"Here is a unique and penetrating postmodernist invitation to reread Pascal's Pensées. With a full control on two centuries of Pascalian hermeneutics, Sara Melzer leads her readers into a passionate quest far beyond the worn-out search for a paleontological reconstruction of the Pensées's hypothetical final form. She rightly and deeply understands Pascal's writing--écriture--as the complex story of the \"Fall of Truth into language.\" Such a perspective gives to Pascal's fragments a rejuvenated life, a newness, a dramatic and powerful voice for our own culture. In brief, a welcome breeze of fresh air in the Pascalian world!\" --Edouard Morot-Sir, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   \"By approaching Pascal's Pensées from the point of view of contemporary critical theory, Melzer sheds new light on this well-known work. Her argument is clear, lucid, and cogent. She has a firm grasp of the major issues at stake in debates among literary critics. I think this is an important work that will be of interest not only to Pascal specialists but also to people who work in the general area of literary theory. . . . One of the genuine strengths of the book is the author's ability to discern the theological implications of issues that preoccupy literary theorists. This is particularly important at a time when students of theology and religion are becoming more and more interested in literary theory. They will find this analysis of Pascal very suggestive.\" --Mark Taylor, Williams College\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Here is a unique and penetrating postmodernist invitation to reread Pascal's Pensées. With a full control on two centuries of Pascalian hermeneutics, Sara Melzer leads her readers into a passionate quest far beyond the worn-out search for a paleontologic","brand":"Sara E. Melzer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48200082063611,"sku":"9780520352902","price":57.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/CoreSourceHub_1df8a7be-c206-422a-8814-326e820dab09.jpg?v=1770689806","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/discourses-of-the-fall-9780520352902","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}