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 of fundamental importance in Pascal's anthropology as
well as in his rhetoric. This avenue of interpretation is both
fruitful and difficult, because the word "volonte" means very
different things in Pascal and in modern French. Beginning by
contextualizing the notion of 'volonte' and explaining its expanded
use in the seventeenth-century lexicon, the author then endeavors
to show that Pascal borrows an essentially Augustinian paradigm of
desire to create a depiction of the will divided against itself,
surreptitiously yearning for what its bearer does not want.
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