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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791805703321

Titolo

Montaigne after theory, theory after Montaigne [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Zahi Zalloua

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press

Walla Walla, Wash., : In association with Whitman College, c2009

ISBN

0-295-80047-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

ZallouaZahi Anbra <1971->

Disciplina

844/.3

Soggetti

Literature - History and criticism - Theory, etc

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.