Literature of the Renaissance: Pascal and Pensées | Dr. Michael Sugrue

Glazed Pascal was one of the greatest figures in 17th-century French intellectual life and this is a remarkable achievement. First, because of the fact that he died young, he didn't live to reach his 40th birthday. Moreover, 17th-century France was an extraordinarily dynamic intellectual milieu. In the age of Moliere and Racine, great philosophers and great literary figures, pascal somehow figures in between the scientists and the literary artists, and the religious thinkers in some respects he's a man who can accomplish more than one kind of intellectual goal or seek more than one kind of intellectual achievement another interesting element of Pascal.