Pascal et l’experience du corps

by Helene Bah Ostrowiecki

Book cover: Pascal et l’experience du corps

Extent: 206 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Literary Studies

Series: Lire le XVIIe siecle

Series volume number: 38, 5

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(March 2016)

ISBN: 9782406057543

Price: $41.00

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Studying Pascal’s notion of body enables us to grasp the coherence of different aspects of his reflection on his experience. It shows that his apologetic is supported by the body, which is an instrument of health that man can use to free himself from his ego and open himself to God.

Helene Bah Ostrowiecki, agregee de lettres classiques, est maitre de conferences a l’universite Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallee. Auteure de travaux sur le libertinage erudit et sur Pascal, elle traduit depuis le latin des textes philosophiques du XVII siecle et a procure la premiere traduction en francais du sixieme traite du Theophrastus redivivus (Paris, 2012) et de l’Ethique de Geulincx (Turnhout, 2009).

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