Montaigne after theory, theory after Montaigne / edited by Zahi Zalloua.

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Zalloua, Zahi Anbra, 1971-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Seattle : University of Washington Press ; Walla Walla, Wash. : In association with Whitman College, c2009.Description: 1 online resource (315 p.)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780295800479
029580047X

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Montaigne after theory, theory after MontaigneDDC classification:

844/.3 22

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PQ1643

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Contents:

From amateur gentleman to gentleman amateur / George Hoffmann -- Theory and practice in "Du pedantisme" / Eric MacPhail -- Fashion / John O'Brien -- Duty, conciliation, and ontology in the Essais / Jacob Vance -- Montaigne parrhesiastes: Foucault's fearless speech and truth-telling in the Essays / Reinier Leushuis -- "Qu'est-ce que la critique?": La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault / Marc Schachter -- Confession or parrhesia? Foucault after Montaigne / Virginia Krause -- Nasty, brutish, and long: the life of Montaigne's Essais in Hobbes's theory of contract / David L. Sedley -- Cannibalizing experience in the Essais / Andrea Frisch -- Rereading Montaigne's memorable stories: sexuality and gender in Vitry-le-François / Edith J. Benkov -- Theorizing sex and gender in Montaigne / Todd W. Reeser -- For a theory of forms in Montaigne / Philippe Desan -- Fadaises & dictons / Tom Conley -- "Mettre la theorique avant la practique": Montaigne and the practice of theory / Richard L. Regosin.

Summary: Annotation Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors from the sixteenth century. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among many readers today. Montaigne After Theory/ Theory After Montaigne pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as theory.

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Annotation Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors from the sixteenth century. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among many readers today. Montaigne After Theory/ Theory After Montaigne pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as theory.

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