Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais
Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
Del i serien Edinburgh Critical Studies in Renaissance Culture
283 kr
Skickas . Fri frakt över 249 kr.
Fler format och utgåvor
Beskrivning
Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical new mode of doubtful writing; one with which Montaigne could conduct and communicate a double, unresolved, and contradictory mode of thinking.Seneca and Plutarch have long been recognised as Montaigne's preferred authors: he himself, on numerous occasions, holds them up as authors of the books he could not be without and their influence on his informal, fragmentary style is widely acknowledged. But these authors have, until now, escaped significant attention from the perspective of philosophical uncertainty. Doubtful Writing argues that it was with these authors dogmatists who nevertheless practised a 'doubtful and unresolved way of writing' that Montaigne developed his own maniere de dire ('way of saying'). Reading Montaigne through this lens offers a valuable new perspective on doubt in the Essais and in the early modern period more broadly, understanding doubt not only as a philosophical system or set of arguments but as a practice of thinking in and with writing.
Produktinformation
Utforska kategorier
Recensioner i media
Innehållsförteckning
Hoppa över listan
Mer från samma författare
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
Luke O'Sullivan, The late Catherine Fuller
Inbunden, 2006
3 913 kr
Del 6
Del 6
Hoppa över listan
Du kanske också är intresserad av
- 10% rabatt på allt
Del 6
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham
Luke O'Sullivan, The late Catherine Fuller
Inbunden, 2006
3 913 kr
Del 5
Michael Oakeshott: Early Political Writings 1925-30
Michael Oakeshott, Luke O'Sullivan
Inbunden, 2010
421 kr