Pascal’s Provincial Letters: Anyone able to point to good resources for this subject?

[Sherloc]

Recently came across Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters and am starting to dig into these. Does anyone here have some good resources for their history, context, and impact?

 

[Torin]

Recently came across Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters and am starting to dig into these. Does anyone here have some good resources for their history, context, and impact?

I've never read anything about them, but I hope you'll keep us up to date with your research.

 

[Torin]

@Sherloc

What are you reading?

What are you reading? :) I'm hoping people will respond to this thread more than once over time as they read different books. The Books subforum here moves very slowly, so ideally this thread will serve as one place for "water cooler discussion" between members of the forum community. I'll...

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[Sherloc]

Thanks for the response and sub forum link.

it certainly is amazing at how a seemingly insignificant mommy of history can raise its head as an attention grabber - now, is it relevant? 🤔

 

[Sherloc]

*moment

 

[SteveB]

Recently came across Blaise Pascal’s Provincial Letters and am starting to dig into these. Does anyone here have some good resources for their history, context, and impact?

So, is this a book you've located?
Is it online, or a regular, "old-school" book?

Nm...
I found it. As a pdf, for digital readers....