Montaigne Life Freedom Ideas Context Dr Felicity Green Hardcover 9781107024397

Montaigne and the Life of Freedom 101\nby Felicity Green\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Felicity Green\nTitle: Montaigne and the Life of Freedom 101\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Medieval Western philosophy\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2012\nISBN-13: 9781107024397\nISBN-10: 1107024390\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nMore than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of Montaigne's text, centred on one of his deepest but hitherto most neglected preoccupations: the need to secure for himself a sph.