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Informationen zum Autor Alison Calhoun is assistant professor of French at Indiana University. Klappentext This book rethinks Montaigne's philosophical thought in terms of transversality by investigating the essayist's debt to ancient life writers Diogenes Laertius and Plutarch. Its scope is of interest to scholars of ancient and early modern life writing, ancient and early modern philosophy, as well as scholars of early modern literary history. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Montaigne and TransversalityChapter 1: Montaigne's Two PlutarchsPlutarch and the Lives as Moral PhilosophyComparison in the Sixteenth Century and Plutarch's ParallelsComparison and KnowledgeParallel Lives of the PhilosophersMontaigne Parallel to the Philosophers Opposition and Discussion: Montaigne and La Boétie Chapter 2: Assembling Strange Flowers: Montaigne and Diogenes LaertiusDoxographer, Poet, BiographerMontaigne's PassageMontaigne's Philosophical TabloidsLowered Standards for Wisdom and Virtue: Stories of Hypocrisy and ConversionChapter 3: Montaigne's PyrrhoSources for Montaigne's PyrrhoThe Renaissance Transmission of the Life of Pyrrho In Search of a Livable Skepticism Pyrrho and Montaigne in the Same BoatA Language of Humanness Chapter 4: The Deaths of the PhilosophersGetting Used to Death: Montaigne's Brother, The Riding Accident, La Boétie"The Bottom of the Pot": Unmasking and Speaking Plain French Philosophers in Pain: Seneca and EpicurusA "Reasonable Exit": Socrates and Diogenes of SinopeChapter 5: The Fabrication of Michel de MontaigneMarie de Gournay's Transverse Self The Vie de Montaigne and the Honnête Homme The Pierre Coste Edition: Continuing the Essay ProjectConclusion: Montaigne's Transverse Self BibliographyIndexAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Alison Calhoun, Calhoun Alison
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2015
• EAN: 9781611494792
• ISBN: 978-1-61149-479-2
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; French, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Italian, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Ethics & moral philosophy, Literary studies: general, Ethics and moral philosophy, Italian, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, Biography: historical, political and military