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Book SynopsisEssayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the widely read authors from the sixteenth century. This title pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as 'theory'.
Trade Review". . . consistently interesting as each of the contributors, in one fashion or another, wrestles with the inherent (and purposeful) textual flux and the ensuing hermeneutic challenge it poses as givens."
-- Michael Wolfe * Sixteenth Century Journal *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Theory? / Zahi Zalloua
1. From Amateur Gentleman to Gentleman Amateur / George Hoffmann
2. Theory and Practice in "Du pedantisme" / Eric MacPhai
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3. Fashion / John O'Brien
4. Duty, Conciliation, and Ontology in the Essais / Jacob Vance
5. Montaigne Parrhesiastes: Foucault's Fearless Speech and Truthtelling in the Essays / Reinier Leushuis
6. "Qu'est-ce que la critique?" La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault / Marc Schachter
7. Confession or Parrhesia? Foucault after Montaigne / Virginia Krause
8. Nasty, Brutish, and Long: The Life of Montaigne's Essais in Hobbes's Theory of Contract / David l. Sedley
9. Cannibalizing Experience in the Essais / Andrea Frisch
10. Rereading Montaigne's Memorable Stories: Sexuality and Gender in Vitry-le-François / Edith J. Benkov
11. Theorizing Sex and Gender in Montaigne / Todd W. Reeser
12. For a Theory of Forms in Montaigne / Philippe Desan
13. Fadaises & Dictons / Tom Conley
14. "Mettre la theorique avant la practique": Montaigne and the Practice of Theory / Richard L. Regosin
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