[History_students] New Course! 300-level HST credit

[Foster, Tom]

CTH 354 | PHL 380 (New Course for Winter 2012, Approved 300-level HST
elective)

Pascal
Tuesday and Thursday, 1:00-2:30

This course will concentrate upon Pascal's life and writings as a unique
vantage point upon the central events and questions of early modern
European cultural, political and intellectual history. As a prominent
scientist connected to the controversial Jansenist movement amidst the
political upheavals of the mid-seventeenth century, Pascal's work
directly and influentially addresses itself to the possibilities and
limits of scientific knowledge at the center of the Scientific
Revolution, the importance of religious toleration in the immediate
aftermath of the The Thirty Years' War, and the basis of political
justice and legitimacy in the aftermath of the English Civil War and the
Fronde (and in intellectual terms, of Thomas Hobbes's Leviathan, which
Pascal read closely). Selections from Descartes, Hobbes, Montaigne and
Bossuet can help to illuminate Pascal's intellectual context. Readings
from Peter Dear's Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and
its Ambitions, 1500-1700, Peter Wilson's The Thirty Years' War, and
other historical scholarship will help students to understand how this
philosopher, theologian, scientist, mathematician, political theorist
and satirist both reflected upon and contributed to debates at the heart
of early modern European culture, religion, science and politics.


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