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Blaise Pascal, the precociously brilliant contemporary of Descartes, was a gifted mathematician and physicist, but it is his unfinished apologia for the Christian religion upon which his reputation now rests. "The Pensees" is a collection of philosohical fragments, notes and essays in which Pascal explores the contradictions of human nature in pscyhological, social, metaphysical and - above all - theological terms. Mankind emerges from Pascal's analysis as a wretched and desolate creature within an impersonal universe, but who can be transformed through faith in God's grace.
| ISBN | 0140446451 | | Pages | 368 | | ISBN13 | 9780140446456
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd | | Weight (grammes) | 270 | | Imprint | Penguin Classics | | Published in | London | | Format | Paperback | | Series editor | Ingham, Patricia | | Publication date | 27 Jul 1995 | | Series title | Penguin Classics S. | | Non-book description | xxxii, 333 p. ; | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Translator | A.J. Krailsheimer | | Width (mm) | 129 | | Writer of introduction | A.J. Krailsheimer | | Spine width (mm) | 21 | | Library of Congress | B1901.P42E | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 239 | | Alternative ISBN | 9781433204593 | | DEWEY edition | DC20 | |
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