num_pages: 264
description: This critique of scholastic reason can be made in the name of Pascal because his thought expressed the features of human existence which the scholastic outlook ignores - his concern with symbolic power, his refusal of the ambition of foundation, his attention, devoid of all populist naivete, to ordinary people and his determination to seek the raison d'etre of the seemingly most illogical behaviour rather than condemning or mocking it.
language: English
title: Pascalian Meditations
titlecomplete: Pascalian Meditations
genres: France, Cultural, Philosophy, Sociology, Academia, Academic, Nonfiction, Theory, Social Science
ratings_count: 166
publisher: Polity Press