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Title: Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking

Montaigne and the Art of Free-Thinking

by Richard Scholar (Author)
Monographs X, 234 Pages
Romance Studies

Summary

Education, religion, scepticism, politics, friendship, sex, and style – Montaigne’s major themes are revealed here in the making of a text that practises freedom of thought by putting it to the test. This is an audacious close reading of the Essays and a demonstration of how Montaigne’s great book continues to speak to the present.

Details

Pages
X, 234
ISBN (Softcover)
9781906165208
Language
English
Keywords
Montaigne Sixteenth-century France Philosophy
Published
Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Wien, 2017. X, 234 pp.

Biographical notes

Richard Scholar (Author)

Richard Scholar is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of Oriel College. His previous books include The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something and, as co-editor, Thinking with Shakespeare: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Essays.

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