EMF Critiques Volume 8 Contents:
Pascal and Rhetoric:
Figural and Persuasive Language in the
Scientific Treatises, the Provinciales, and the Pensées
Erec R. Koch

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ix

NOTES ON PRIMARY TEXTS
x

Introduction
xiii

Part I: Ornamentation

Chapter One
Logic and Rhetoric
1

Chapter Two
Science: Nature’s Visibility
37

Part II: Persuasion

Chapter Three
Lettres provincials: Seductive Fictions
73

Chapter Four
Pensées: Dialectic and Rhetoric
108

Chapter Five
Pensées: Biblical Exegesis and Divine Persuasion
144

BIBLIOGRAPHY
181

INDEX
195

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