The Discipline of Subjectivity: An Essay on Montaigne

by Ermanno Bencivenga

Book Overview

Through an interpretation of Montaigne's philosophical vision as expressed in his Essays, Ermanno Bencivenga contributes to the current debate about the "death of the subject" by developing a view of the self as a project of continuous construction rather than the source and foundation of knowledge. This latter, Cartesian conception of self-consciousness as a logical and epistemological starting point is, Bencivenga contends, delusive: the certainty...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691607656
• ISBN13: 9780691607658
• Release Date: July 2014
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 146 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"