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- catalog abstract "The problem of the ineffable haunts Blaise Pascal. Whether in his fragmentary Pensees, his personal correspondence, or his scientific writings on the void and geometry, the Baroque thinker gravitates to the same elusive questions: How can reason understand that which surpasses reason? How to speak of that which is beyond words? His seemingly paradoxical inquiry into God's transcendent nature--and its mathematical corollary, infinity--does not dead-end at a logical impasse. This book shows how Pascal overcomes the limits of reason by adopting dissonant cognitive strategies akin to the mystical tradition known as apophatic ("negative") theology. Current scholarship has largely overlooked the presence of apophatic thought in Pascal's work. What emerges from this book is a philosophical dialogue between Pascal and Pseudo-Dionysius, the fifth-century writer of seminal apophatic treatises.".
- catalog contributor b12208018.
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [147]-153) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I Apophatic Paradigm -- Chapter 1 Shrine of Dionysius 3 -- A Case of Mistaken Identity 3 -- Opening the Shrine 6 -- Transgression of the Sacred Order 16 -- Chapter 2 Thinking Through the Void 23 -- Hyperessential God 23 -- Dieu Sensible au Coeur 27 -- Part II Essence-Avoidance -- Chapter 3 Unnameable Names 37 -- Problem of Divine Predication 37 -- Sublime: Aesthetics and the Art of Pleasing 44 -- Chapter 4 Language and Presence 55 -- Breaking the Silence 55 -- Magical Rod: The "Pointing-To" Structure 56 -- Mots Primitifs 57 -- Nominal Definitions 62 -- Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Invisible Wound 64 -- Hyperbole 72 -- Part III Thinking on the Other Side -- Chapter 5 God Is a Worm 83 -- Dissimilar Symbols 83 -- Word and the World 84 -- Chapter 6 Logic of the Cross 97 -- Monad-Indivisible Point 97 -- Transubstantiation and the Vinculum Substantiale 106 -- Wheels of the Mind 111 -- Part IV Aphairesis -- Chapter 7 Mystical Sculptor 123 -- Horror Vacuii and the Mystical Void 123 -- Beyond the Primordial Tautology of Being 127 -- Way of Detachment 134.".
- catalog description "The problem of the ineffable haunts Blaise Pascal. Whether in his fragmentary Pensees, his personal correspondence, or his scientific writings on the void and geometry, the Baroque thinker gravitates to the same elusive questions: How can reason understand that which surpasses reason? How to speak of that which is beyond words? His seemingly paradoxical inquiry into God's transcendent nature--and its mathematical corollary, infinity--does not dead-end at a logical impasse. This book shows how Pascal overcomes the limits of reason by adopting dissonant cognitive strategies akin to the mystical tradition known as apophatic ("negative") theology. Current scholarship has largely overlooked the presence of apophatic thought in Pascal's work. What emerges from this book is a philosophical dialogue between Pascal and Pseudo-Dionysius, the fifth-century writer of seminal apophatic treatises.".
- catalog extent "xi, 159 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Blaise Pascal's quest for the ineffable.".
- catalog identifier "0820452831 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Blaise Pascal's quest for the ineffable.".
- catalog isPartOf "New perspectives in philosophical scholarship ; 16.".
- catalog isPartOf "New perspectives in philosophical scholarship ; vol. 16".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : P. Lang,".
- catalog relation "Blaise Pascal's quest for the ineffable.".
- catalog subject "194 21".
- catalog subject "B1903 .L83 2001".
- catalog subject "Pascal, Blaise, 1623-1662.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I Apophatic Paradigm -- Chapter 1 Shrine of Dionysius 3 -- A Case of Mistaken Identity 3 -- Opening the Shrine 6 -- Transgression of the Sacred Order 16 -- Chapter 2 Thinking Through the Void 23 -- Hyperessential God 23 -- Dieu Sensible au Coeur 27 -- Part II Essence-Avoidance -- Chapter 3 Unnameable Names 37 -- Problem of Divine Predication 37 -- Sublime: Aesthetics and the Art of Pleasing 44 -- Chapter 4 Language and Presence 55 -- Breaking the Silence 55 -- Magical Rod: The "Pointing-To" Structure 56 -- Mots Primitifs 57 -- Nominal Definitions 62 -- Hoc Est Corpus Meum: The Invisible Wound 64 -- Hyperbole 72 -- Part III Thinking on the Other Side -- Chapter 5 God Is a Worm 83 -- Dissimilar Symbols 83 -- Word and the World 84 -- Chapter 6 Logic of the Cross 97 -- Monad-Indivisible Point 97 -- Transubstantiation and the Vinculum Substantiale 106 -- Wheels of the Mind 111 -- Part IV Aphairesis -- Chapter 7 Mystical Sculptor 123 -- Horror Vacuii and the Mystical Void 123 -- Beyond the Primordial Tautology of Being 127 -- Way of Detachment 134.".
- catalog title "Blaise Pascal's quest for the ineffable / Dawn M. Ludwin.".
- catalog type "text".