Discourses of the Fall

"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 stor...