Montaigne after theory, theory after Montaigne [electronic resource] / edited by Zahi Zalloua. - Seattle : Walla Walla, Wash. : University of Washington Press ; In association with Whitman College, c2009. - 315 p.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Boetie, 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-Francois / 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.


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780295800479 (electronic bk.)




Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 --Criticism and interpretation.
Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.


Literature--History and criticism--Theory, etc.


Electronic books.

PQ1643 / .M5664 2009

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