Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-90-04-11630-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 99, 206 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 558 g

Reihe: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History

This volume focuses on six topics of research that are particularly relevant not only for Montaigne's writing but for the late sixteenth century: the genre of the essay, its style, pedagogy, politics, religion, and historiography.
One historical reader and enthusiastic admirer of Montaigne's texts, Friedrich Nietzsche, influences the critical approach of this study of innovative elements in the Essais. Nietzsche's attitude toward his literary precursors corresponds to the humanists' attitude toward their classical sources; it is the attitude of a double gesture - that of rejection, because it wants to separate itself from its immediate past in order to, then, search for ancient roots.
Nietzsche was a great expert on the six topics discussed. With him as a mediator, Montaigne will be portrayed as a modern in so far as he takes up thoughts that emerge with the Reformation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heitsch, Dorothea

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Abbreviations

Introduction

1. An Art of Synthesis in Montaigne’s Essay
2. Complexion as Style and Physiology
3. Teaching Judgment—Setting Example against Metaphor
4. Interpreting Montaigne’s Political Texts
5. Adiaphora
6. History and Autobiography

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Dorothea B. Heitsch, Ph.D. (1997) in Comparative Literature, University of Washington in Seattle, is Assistant Professor of French and German at Shippensburg University in Pennsylvania.