{"product_id":"lzcriture-et-le-reste-david-wetsel-9780814253595","title":"L'Écriture Et Le Reste: The Pensées of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal","description":"Modern critical approaches to the \u003ci\u003ePens es\u003c\/i\u003e have often been profoundly influenced by the idea that these notes for Pascal's projected \u003ci\u003eApology\u003c\/i\u003e for Christianity may be divided into two categories: the \"pens es philosophiques\" and the \"pens es religieuses.\" This distinction has obscured the apologetic character of the proposed \u003ci\u003eApology\u003c\/i\u003e by inviting critics to elucidate its purely \"philosophical\" meaning, and it has contributed to critical neglect of those passages that are deemed of only \"theological\" interest. To point up the true significance of these passages, Dr. Wetsel undertakes a systematic examination of the part played by the Bible in Pascal's overall argument. He does so from the perspective of biblical exegesis as practiced by the theologians of Port-Royal, and finds of particular value in illuminating previously enigmatic passages of the \u003ci\u003ePens es\u003c\/i\u003e that extensive set of commentaries appended to his translation of the Bible by Issac Le Maistre de Sacy, Port-Royal's chief authority on the interpretation of Scripture and Pascal's own confessor. In Sacy's \u003ci\u003ePr face   la Gen se, \u003c\/i\u003e Wetsel has discovered a previously undetected key to Pascal's whole apologetic strategy. Wetsel establishes a series of parallel texts drawn from the thirty-four volumes of commentary assembled by Sacy. He enables interpretation of ideas that appear in the Pens es only in abbreviated and recondite form, reveals the larger dimensions of an apology based on the argument that God has built into the very fabric of sacred history a convincing proof of Christianity, and illuminates our heretofore imperfect understanding of the cryptic exchange between Pascal's \u003ci\u003elibertin\u003c\/i\u003e and the apologist himself that comes at the end of the argument known as \u003ci\u003ele pari: \u003c\/i\u003e \"N'y a-t-il point moyen de voir le dessous du jeu?\" \"Oui, l'Ecriture et le reste.\" \u003cb\u003eDavid Wetsel\u003c\/b\u003e is an Andrew Mellon Fellow in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Pittsburgh.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Wetsel\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0814253598\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814253595\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/26\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 258\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d","brand":"David Wetsel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46052201103615,"sku":"9780814253595","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_108575c2-669c-49ed-9af0-8cdeb8916a48.jpg?v=1723555633","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/lzcriture-et-le-reste-david-wetsel-9780814253595","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}