LEADER 04059nam 22006492 450 001 9910782581003321 005 20230607005331.0 010 $a1-78138-647-1 010 $a1-84631-305-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000576133 035 $a(EBL)380715 035 $a(OCoLC)277091875 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000149183 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11149422 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000149183 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10236227 035 $a(PQKB)10553931 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000127418 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380715 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781386477 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL380715 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10369198 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000576133 100 $a20170307d2001|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aEssaying Montaigne $ea study of the Renaissance institution of writing and reading /$fJohn O'Neill$b[electronic resource] 205 $aSecond edition. 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2001. 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 264 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 225 1 $aStudies in social and political thought ;$v5 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a0-85323-507-4 311 $a0-85323-996-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index. 327 $tSociety and Self-study: the Problem of Literary Authority --$tLiterary Anxiety and the Romance of Books --$tRival Readings --$tWriting and Embodiment --$tReading and Temperament --$tThe Paradox of Communication: Reading the Essays Otherwise --$tPortrait of the Essayist Without Qualities --$tOn Public and Private Life --$tCivilisation, Literacy and Barbarism --$tOn Living and Dying as We Do. 330 $aJohn O'Neill reads Montaigne's Essays from their central principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice operative in society, literature and politics. The friendship between Montaigne and La Boe?tie was ruled neither by plenitude nor lack but by a capacity for recognition and transitivity. As an essayist Montaigne is an exemplary practitioner of a technique of difference and recognition that puts all certainties of history, philosophy and culture in the balance of weighted comparison. The essayist reveals how every absolute subjectivity or authority is shaken by its internal weakness once we move inside the contrastive structure of domination in politics, gender and race. O'Neill's reading of the Essays strives to be faithful to the phenomenology of their embodied practices of reading-to-write-to re-read and re-write. From this standpoint he engages the principal critical readings of the Essays over the last century that have examined with great brilliance their history, structure and psychology. Whether the structure is evolutionary, structuralist, Marxist or psychoanalytical, O'Neill provides close readings of Montaigne's literary critics. By bringing to bear the ethico-critical practice of 'essaying' to resist the subjection of the Essays to dominant criticism, O'Neill reminds readers that Montaigne's appeal is in how he survived bloody cultural war with a balance of modesty and tolerance, invoking compromise where others practice violence. 410 0$aStudies in social and political thought ;$v5. 606 $aAuthors and readers$zFrance$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aBooks and reading$zFrance$xHistory$y16th century 606 $aFrench essays$xHistory and criticism 606 $aRenaissance$zFrance 615 0$aAuthors and readers$xHistory 615 0$aBooks and reading$xHistory 615 0$aFrench essays$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aRenaissance 676 $a844.3 700 $aO'Neill$b John$f1933-2022,$01359173 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782581003321 996 $aEssaying Montaigne$93803652 997 $aUNINA