L'Ecriture et le Reste: The Pensees of Pascal in the Exegetical Tradition of Port-Royal

Modern critical approaches to the Pensées have often been profoundly influenced by the idea that these notes for Pascal's projected Apology for Christianity may be divided into two categories: the "pensées philosophiques" and the "pensées religieuses." This distinction has obscured the apologetic character of the proposed Apology by inviting critics to elucidate its purely "philosophical" meaning, and it has contributed to critical neglect of those passages that are deemed o…