a study of the Renaissance institution of writing and reading
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2011
Verlag:
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool
John ONeill reads Montaignes 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...
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John ONeill reads Montaignes 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. 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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-260) and index. - Print version record
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