242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
242 Pages
by
Routledge
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This study identifies and analyzes a compelling theory and practice of persuasion that integrates the complexity of human desire. It demonstrates how the philosophical component in Pascal's description of the will makes a seamless integration into a vehicle of persuasion and poetics, providing a privileged viewpoint for understanding the author's complete works, arguing that the notion of will is... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One: Freedom and the Anatomy of the Will
Chapter One: The Will’s Expanded Lexicon and its Seventeenth-Century Context
Chapter Two: Early Modern Free Will
Part Two: The Will and Knowledge
Chapter Three: The Interior Regard of the Will
Chapter Four: The Will’s Effect on Knowledge
Chapter Five: The Rhetoric of Uncertainty
Part Three: Will, Wisdom, and Eloquence
Chapter Six: Nonrepresentational Truth, Wisdom and Justice
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Parker, Thomas
