"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."& mdash;Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University"In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's...
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"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."& mdash;Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University"In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman contemporizes the great writer. Reading him from today's deconstructive America, Kritzman discovers Montaigne always already deep into a dialogue with Jacques Derrida and psychoanalysis. One cannot but admire this fabulous act of translation."& mdash;Hélène Cixous"Throughout his career, Lawrence D. Kritzman has demonstrated
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: Montaigne Is Theory; PART I: Monster Theory; 1: MONTAIGNE'S FANTASTIC MONSTERS AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF GENDER; 2: REPRESENTING THE MONSTER; PART II: Death Sentences; 3: MONTAIGNE'S FRATERNITY: La Boétie on Trial; 4: MONTAIGNE ON HORSEBACK, OR THE SIMULATION OF DEATH; 5: THE ANXIETY OF DEATH: Narrative and Subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4); 6: EXCAVATING MONTAIGNE: The Essayist on Trial; PART III: Philosophical Impostures; 7: THE SOCRATIC MAKEOVER: The Ethics of the Impossible in "De la phisionomie" (III, 12)
8: ROMANCING THE STONE "De l'experience" (III, 13)NOTES; WORKS CITED; INDEX;