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Pascal and the divided will: Rhetor...

Parker, Thomas Robert.

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Pascal and the divided will: Rhetoric, volition, and emotions in the work of Pascal.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Pascal and the divided will: Rhetoric, volition, and emotions in the work of Pascal./
Author:	Parker, Thomas Robert.
Description:	268 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Pierre Force.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International66-05A.
Subject:	Literature, Romance. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3174868
ISBN:	9780542131851

Pascal and the divided will: Rhetoric, volition, and emotions in the work of Pascal.
Parker, Thomas Robert.

Pascal and the divided will: Rhetoric, volition, and emotions in the work of Pascal. - 268 p.

Adviser: Pierre Force.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2005.

This dissertation identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author's complete works. I argue that the notion of will or volonte is of fundamental importance in Pascal's anthropology as well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both fruitful and difficult, because the word volonte means very different things in Pascal and in modern French. I begin by contextualizing the notion of volonte and explain its expanded use in the 17th century lexicon. I then endeavor to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself, surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.

ISBN: 9780542131851Subjects--Topical Terms:

1019014
Literature, Romance.

Pascal and the divided will: Rhetoric, volition, and emotions in the work of Pascal.
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