Insights of Blaise Pascal (about the Book “France and Russia: around Blaise Pascal”)

Abstract

The monograph edited by K.Yu. Kashlyavik contains contributions of the speakers at the international conference “France and Russia: around Blaise Pascal,” held at the Department of Humanities of the Higher School of Economics — Nizhny Novgorod in 2018. This is the first collective monograph in national philology dedicated to the French writer and thinker of the 17 th century, which includes studies of Pascal’s legacy in French, English, and Russian cultures.

Keywords

• french literature of the 17 th century
• pascal
• des cartes
• integrity
• fragmentation
• grace
• predestination
• jansenism
• christian anthropology.