RT Article
T1 What Is the Self? Imitation and Subjectivity in Blaise Pascal's Pensées
JF Modern theology
VO 26
IS 3
SP 417
OP 436
A1 Wood, William
LA English
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1929862385
AB I aim to develop a fully theological, yet still Pascalian account of human subjectivity. Exegetically, I argue that the Pensées themselves present two such accounts. The first account is a portrait of fallen subjectivity, selfhood under the reign of sin. The second account is a portrait of authentic subjectivity. This latter account is explicitly Christological and even Trinitarian. Constructively, I argue that Pascal's two accounts show that our subjectivity is performative and imitative: whether under sin or under grace, to be a self is to imitate God.
DO 10.1111/j.1468-0025.2010.01616.x