Discourses of the Fall: A Study of Pascal's Pensées

"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...