Essaying Montaigne

A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing and Reading

Автор: John O'Neill

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Издател: Liverpool University Press

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John O'Neill reads Montaigne's Essays from their central principle of friendship as a communicative...

Информация за книгата

Автор

John O'Neill

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С твърди корици

Издадена

2001

страници

272

EAN

9780853239963

Enbook ID

04740055

Издател

Liverpool University Press

Теглоt

608

Размери

156 x 234 x 28

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John 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 Boetie 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.

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