Unsettling Montaigne – Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writi…

Unsettling MontaignePoetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings\nAuthor(s): Elizabeth Guild\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9781843843719, 978-1843843719\nSynopsis\nStriking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance.\n\nMontaigne's Essais [tel] are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance. The Essais' innovative open-mindedness is at odds with the dogmatism and intolerance of their times, the decades of civil and religious wars in France, and their tolerant and searching human questions and ethics of difference remain compelling for twenty-first century readers. But the sceptical open-endedness that vitalizes this writing is also often troubled and troubling: personal losses and the collapse of cultural ideals moved Montaigne to write, and their attendant anxieties are not resolved into tranquil reflection.\nUnsettling Montaigne r.