| Description |
1 online resource (x, 227 pages) |
| Contents |
Monster theory -- Montaigne's fantastic monsters and the construction of gender -- Representing the monster : cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in "Des boyteux" (III, 11) -- Death sentences -- Montaigne's fraternity : La Boétie on trial -- Montaigne on horseback, or, The simulation of death -- The anxiety of death : narrative and subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4) -- Excavating Montaigne : the essayist on trial -- Philosophical impostures -- The Socratic makeover : the ethics of the impossible in "De la phisionomie" (III, 12) -- Romancing the stone : "De l'experience" (III, 13) |
| Summary |
"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters." - Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University. "In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman contemporizes the great writer. Reading him from today's deconstructive America, Kritzman discovers Montaigne always already deep into a dialogue with Jacques Derrida and psychoanalysis. One cannot but admire this fabulous act of translation." - Hélène Cixous |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-214) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais
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| SUBJECT |
Montaigne, Michel Eyquem{de. swd |
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Essais (Montaigne, Michel de) fast |
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Essais. swd |
| Subject |
Imagination (Philosophy)
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LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- French.
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Imagination (Philosophy)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2008045954 |
| ISBN |
9780231512510 |
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0231512511 |
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