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  1. Essaying Montaigne
    a study of the Renaissance institution of writing and reading
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz, Max-Planck-Institut, Bibliothek
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780853239963; 0853239967
    RVK Categories: IF 3580
    Edition: 2nd ed
    Series: Studies in social and political thought ; 5
    Subjects: Geschichte; Authors and readers; Books and reading; French essays; Renaissance
    Other subjects: Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592): Essais; Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592): Essais; Montaigne, Michel Eyquem de (1533-1592)
    Scope: viii, 264 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-260) and index

  2. Essaying Montaigne
    A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing and Reading
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Liverpool University Press, Liverpool

    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 Boétie was ruled neither by plenitude... more

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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 Boétie 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 interna

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780853239963
    Series: Studies in Social and Political Thought, 5 ; v.v. 5
    Subjects: Authors and readers ; France ; History ; 16th century; Books and reading ; France ; History ; 16th century; French essays ; History and criticism; Montaigne, Michel de ; 1533-1592 ; Essais; Renaissance ; France; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (266 p.)
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    Title Page; Contents; Preface to the revised edition; To the Reader; 1: Society and Self-study: the Problem of Literary Authority; 2: Literary Anxiety and the Romance of Books; 3: Rival Readings; 4: Writing and Embodiment; 5: Reading and Temperament; 6: The Paradox of Communication: Reading the Essays Otherwise; 7: Portrait of the Essayist Without Qualities; 8: On Public and Private Life; 9: Civilisation, Literacy and Barbarism; 10: On Living and Dying as We Do; Notes; Bibliography; Index;