Blaise Pascal on Duplicity, Sin, and the Fall

This book explains Pascal's understanding of the cognitive consequences of the Fall. For Pascal, the self is a fiction, constructed from without by an already duplicitous world. Drawing on the Pensées, William Wood demonstrates, by exegetical argument and constructive example, that 'Pascalian' theology is both possible and fruitful.

On the whole, Wood's study on sin and self-deception starting from Pascal's Pensées is very convincing ... This [is an] elegantly presented, imaginative and pithy work.

There is much of value in this and the level of discussion is generally excellent.