From which French philosopher's work did John Maus derive the title of the album whose positive response caused him to grow more widely accepted as an outsider artist?
We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves is the third album from the American electronic musician John Maus, released in 2011, on Ribbon Music in the United States and Upset the Rhythm in the UK. Critics met the album with generally favorable reviews. The title is derived from French philosopher Alain Badiou's "Fifteen Theses on Contemporary Art".
Pensées The Pensées ("Thoughts") is a collection of fragments on theology and philosophy written by 17th-century philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. Pascal's religious conversion led him into a life of asceticism, and the "Pensées" was in many ways his life's work. The "Pensées" represented Pascal's defense of the Christian religion. The concept of "Pascal's Wager" stems from a portion of this work.