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Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart
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Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart. By Marvin R. O'Connell. [Library of Religious Biography] (Grand Rapids, Michigan:William B. Eerdmans Publishing Co. 1997. Pp. xxi, 210. $16.00 paperback.)
Of the introductory biographical studies of the life and works of Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) that have appeared in English in recent years, Marvin O'Connell's Blaise Pascal: Reasons of the Heart is among the best. It is probably the most readable.
Whereas most of Pascal's recent English-speaking biographers have sought to stress his "modernity," Father O'Connell's new study solidly anchors Pascal's life ...
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Was Georges Sorel an Andersonian? (Philosophy & Ideas).(John Anderson)
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; ...help our understanding of them. Georges Sorel is a characteristic case. Anderson...consumer's ethic from Chapter 7 of Sorel's Reflections on Violence and made...gave it meaning and salience for Sorel. To the question, Was Sorel an...
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Sorel's persistent vision.
News Wire article from: United Press International
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SOREL'S PERSISTENT VISION
News Wire article from: United Press International
; ...Press International 10-22-2001 Sorel's persistent vision Oct 22, 2001...and ideas of the French philosopher Georges Sorel (1847-1922) continue to be read...sociologists or political scientists. Sorel, born in Normandy and trained as...
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The Birth of Fascist Ideology: From Cultural Rebellion to Political Revolution.
Magazine article from: The Historian
; ...Fascism's evolution is traced through Georges Sorel's intellectual journey. Disgusted with revisionism, Sorel discovered Marx's true legacy - the sociology of violence. Sorel's "Marxism" expected the proletariat...
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Political myth, or foreign policy and the fantasy of Israel.(The Middle East)
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When Freud Hailed Il Duce As a Hero of Modern Culture: New Study
Newspaper article from: Forward
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Dover Publications.(Jewish Life In The Middle Ages)(Harriet Tubman: The Moses Of Her People)(Reflections On Violence)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Bookwatch
; ...pointed survey of Tubman's life and achievements. Georges Sorel's Reflections On Violence (0486437078, $14.95...1950 treatise to life, presenting French socialist Georges Sorel with an original theory on the evolution of violence...
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Research from University of Sydney in the area of political science published.
Newspaper article from: Politics & Government Week
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Into the net
Magazine article from: Musical Times
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Gotterdammerbust.(Day without Immigrants)
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