Jacqueline pascal biography books

While literary scholars and historians have long paid attention to the Port-Royal nuns, Anglophone philosophers have largely seen their role as a supporting cast for Antoine Arnauld and Blaise Pascal -- if not overlooking their contributions altogether.

In the past decade, only two book-length studies touch on the convent's philosophies: John J. Conley's study of three Arnauld sisters, Adoration and Annihilation: The Convent Philosophy of Port-Royal (University of Notre Dame Press, ), and Daniella Kostroun's Feminism, Absolutism, and Jansenism (Cambridge, ).

Beyond this, other than Conley's reader of Jacqueline Pascal's work (A Rule for Children and Other Writings, University of Chicago Press, ) and a recent article, little philosophical literature on these women exists in English.

So Conley's monograph on the Pascal women is a welcome and timely contribution to the literat