Faith and the incommensurable: from Pascal to Badiou via Kierkegaard and Kuhn
This dissertation examines the way the Pythagorean conception of the incommensurable structures the assertions of subjective agency in Blaise Pascal’s Pensées (1670), Søren Kierkegaard’s Concluding Unscientific Postscript (1846), and Alain Badiou’s Being and Event (1988). The Pythagoreans coined the...
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University of Iowa
2017
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| Online Access: | https://ir.uiowa.edu/etd/6016 https://ir.uiowa.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=7497&context=etd |