Nicholas Hammond

Reader in French Early Modern Theatre and Thought Nicholas Hammond

This is the first comprehensive work on Pascal to be devoted to his use of key terms depicting the central subject of the Pensées, the human condition. Giving and in-depth account of many important critical controversies of the day, as well as offering a novel and provocative insight into the persuasive purpose of the Pensées, Hammond explores such fundamental notions as language and order.

Language and the Human Condition in Pascal's Pensées

Playing with Truth

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker. Blaise Pascal (1623–62) occupies a position of pivotal importance in many domains: philosophy, mathematics, physics, religious polemics and apologetics. In this volume a team of leading scholars presents the full range of Pascal's achievement and surveys the intellectual background of his thought and the reception of his work. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Pascal currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Pascal.

The Cambridge Companion to Pascal

A study of the conscious shaping of memory within the community known as Port-Royal in seventeenth-century France, whose members thought that memory could contribute to the new ideas which they had about education. Concentrating on memoirs in the first chapter and on various educational treatises in the second, Hammond explores many previously unknown works. Port-Royal was to a large extent responsible for producing two of the greatest writers of the age, Blaise Pascal and Jean Racine; Hammond devotes a chapter to each. The role of memory in the persuasive process of Pascalʼs Pensées is shown to be vital to a full understanding of the work.

Memory and Education at Port-Royal

Fragmentary Voices

Emma Wilson

William Burgwinkle

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

The Cambridge History of French Literature

Nicholas Geoffrey Lemprière Hammond

A convenient and accessible guide to Blaise Pascal presenting the full range of his achievement.

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