Montaigne and the life of freedom, Felicity Green
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Montaigne and the life of freedom, Felicity Green
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eng
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non fiction
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Montaigne and the life of freedom
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electronic resource
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dictionaries
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804664900
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Felicity Green
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Ideas in context, 101Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks
Summary
More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of Montaigne's text, centred on one of his deepest but hitherto most neglected preoccupations: the need to secure for himself a sphere of liberty and independence that he can properly call his own, or himself. Montaigne and the Life of Freedom restores the Essais to its historical context by examining the sources, character and significance of Montaigne's project of self-study. That project, as Green shows, reactivates and reshapes ancient practices of self-awareness and self-regulation, in order to establish the self as a space of inner refuge, tranquillity and dominion, free from the inward compulsion of the passions and from subjection to external objects, forces and persons.--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Introduction -- Freedom and the essai -- Languages of the self: Montaigne's classical inheritance -- Self-possession, public engagement and slavery -- Oysiveté and nonchalance: Liberty as carelessness -- The art of self-management -- Conclusion
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