Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne
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Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF
Available until 23 Dec |Learn more

Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne

About this book

Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among 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." Montaigne's life and writings have drawn myriad interpretations. While some scholars of his work focus on the content of the writings to define the man, others stress his playful use of language. Montaigne's complex and multifaceted works provide fertile ground for exploring themes of wide-ranging significance within the field of literary theory, including the relationship between biography and theory; the critique of modernism; a critical history of the confessional mode of writing; sexuality and gender; and the theory of practice. The essays in this collection move beyond the current stalemate in Montaigne criticism by revisiting questions about the role of theory in literary studies and by opening up a dialogue on the validity and limitations, or use and abuse, of theory in Montaigne studies.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Introduction: What Is Theory?
  7. 1. From Amateur Gentleman to Gentleman Amateur
  8. 2. Theory and Practice in "Du pedantisme"
  9. 3. Fashion
  10. 4. Duty, Conciliation, and Ontology in the Essais
  11. 5. Montaigne Parrhesiastes: Foucault's Fearless Speech and Truth-telling in the Essays
  12. 6. "Qu'est-ce que la critique?" La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault
  13. 7. Confession or Parrhesia? Foucault after Montaigne
  14. 8. Nasty, Brutish, and Long: The Life of Montaigne's Essais in Hobbes's Theory of Contract
  15. 9. Cannibalizing Experience in the Essais
  16. 10. Rereading Montaigne's Memorable Stories: Sexuality and Gender in Vitry-le-François
  17. 11. Theorizing Sex and Gender in Montaigne
  18. 12. For a Theory of Forms in Montaigne
  19. 13. Fadaises & Dictons
  20. 14. "Mettre la theorique avant la practique": Montaigne and the Practice of Theory
  21. Bibliography
  22. Contributors
  23. Index