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Title: Pensees and Other Writings (The World's Classics) by Blaise Pascal, Honor Levi, Anthony Levi ISBN: 0-19-282990-4 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: 'The Great Pascal'
Comment: This Oxford's version of the Pensees is in some ways superior to the Penguin Classics version. The introduction, by Anthony Levi, gives a much better insight into the history behind the development of Pascal's 'thoughts'. As far as the biography is concerned, Oxford's version gives a much broader span of time concerning Blaise's life.
A lot of people blame Pascal for not being like Montaigne, but that is just foolish. I enjoy Pascal's style because of its originality, and there also seems to me to be a similiar style between both men--espcially in how they both change ideas in a brief span of time. I believe Montainge originally meant to make his 'essays' a collection of expanded sayings and maxims but it took another form, and Pascal maybe wanted his 'pensees' to be his magnum opus by turning it into a large book that would be something like Montaign's Essays. Both men, I guess, envisioned something different from their final product and both of them left a legacy that was fruitful and informative, and their works shouldn't be compared as two competing styles since they are so different from one another in both format and intention.
And after reading Pascal's 'Discussion with Monsieur de Sacy', I was struck by Pascal's shear brilliance. He is a giant of a writer and is one of the cleanest writers I have ever read.
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Title: An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (Oxford Philosophical Texts) by David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp ISBN: 0198752482 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (Great Books in Philosophy) by John Locke ISBN: 0879759178 Publisher: Prometheus Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1994 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Meditations on First Philosophy: With Selections from the Objections and Replies (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) by Rene Descartes, John Cottingham, Bernard Williams ISBN: 0521558182 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Complete English Poems (Penguin Classics) by George Herbert ISBN: 0140423486 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1992 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: John Milton (The Oxford Authors) by John Milton, Stephen Orgel, Jonathan Goldberg ISBN: 019281379X Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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