Unsettling Montaigne: Poetics, Ethics and Affect in the Essais and Other Writings

by Elizabeth Guild

Montaigne's Essais (1580-1592) are one of the most remarkable works of the European Renaissance. The Essais' innovative open-mindedness is at odds with the dogmatism and intolerance of their times, the decades of civil and religious wars in France, and their tolerant and searching human questions and ethics of difference remain compelling for twenty-first century readers. But the sceptical open-endedness that vitalizes this writing is also often troubled...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1843843714
• ISBN13: 9781843843719
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"