Abstract
This text is an afterword to the Czech translation of Pascalian Meditations by the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. The author discusses the position of this book in the body of Bourdieu's work, Bourdieu's complex relationship to philosophy as well as his selective appropriation of Blaise Pascal's thought.
Intellectual and historical reasons behind the title Pascalian Meditations are explored at some length. The afterword also provides an overview of the main themes of Bourdieu's book pointing out their significance in the context of his sociological thought and in that of the relevant debates in contemporary sociological theory.