Essaying Montaigne: A Study of the Renaissance Institution of Writing and Reading
- ISBN-10
- 0853239967
- ISBN-13
- 9780853239963
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Liverpool University Press
- Author
- John O'Neill
Description
John O'Neill reads Montaigne's 'Essays' from the principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice in society, literature and politics. He shows how subjectivity is shaken by its internal weakness once we move inside the structure of domination in politics, gender and race.
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