The Polemics of Libertine Conversion in Pascal's Pensées: A Dialectics of Rational and Occult Libertine Beliefs |
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... Common Vision : Pascal's Linguistic Blending of the Apologist's Lyrical " je " with the Libertine Interlocutor's Skeptical Voice 190 Section III : Pascal's Dialogical Techniques 203 CONCLUSION : Pascal in the Age of " Enlightenment ...
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Contents
PREFACE Pierre Force | 11 |
An Historical Analysis of the Actual | 23 |
The Persuasive Force of Pascals Rhetoric | 37 |
The Rational and The Occult Dimensions | 46 |
The Presence and Role of Occult Libertine | 65 |
Christian Cabala and Neoplatonism | 83 |
Pascals Response to The Occult Theory | 99 |
Occult Libertine Authorities in the Pensées | 111 |
Historical Authority in the Pensées | 121 |
Historical and Fictional Authority for the Libertine | 134 |
Pascals Historical Argumentation | 151 |
Pascals Gradation of Rational and Occult Libertine | 169 |
The Forging of a Common Vision | 190 |
Pascals Dialogical Techniques | 203 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 221 |
Common terms and phrases
According to Pascal Alchemy allegorical Augustin authority autre Bible bibliothèque bien Blaise Pascal c'est Cabala Cabalistic Catholic apologist century choses Christ Christian apologist Christian Cabala Corpus Hermeticum d'une Dieu discours divine Editions erudite libertine esprit été fait faith faut figure fragment number Frances Yates Gabriel Naudé Giordano Bruno hermeneutical Hermes Trismegistus Hermetic historical hommes interpretation Jean Mesnard Judeo-Christian Judeo-Christian biblical chronology l'homme et l'œuvre Lenoble les libertins libertinage libertine interlocutors libertine reader libertine thesis libertine thought libertine's Librairie linguistic utterances Macrocosm meaning Mersenne miracles monde mortal Moses n'est nature Naudé Neoplatonic notion occult beliefs occult libertine beliefs Old Testament Paris Pascal's apology Pascalian Pensées perspective peut Philosopher's Stone philosophy Pico Pierre Pintard point fixe Port-Royal proof qu'elle qu'il qu'on quest question rational refutation religion Renaissance rhetorical rien Robert Fludd Rosicrucian Saint Sellier sens seventeenth seventeenth-century libertine siècle skeptical spiritual theory tout tradition Trismegistus truth validity vérité voice wager