Essaying Montaigne: A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing & Reading
Essaying Montaigne: A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing & Reading\nJohn O'Neill\nPublished by Liverpool University Press. 1982\nISBN: 9780853239963\nCondition: Very Good\nDescription:\nHardcover, with dust jacket, with very slight bend to top. Black cloth boards, unmarked with gilt lettering to spine. Pages clean, bright and unmarked. Looks unread. \nThe author 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 Botie 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. \nThe essayist reveals how every absolute subjectivity or authority is shaken by its internal.
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