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Montaigne and the Lives of the Philosophers : Life Writing and Transversality in the Essais.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Blue Ridge Summit : University of Delaware Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (213 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781611494808
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Montaigne and the Lives of the PhilosophersDDC classification:
  • 844.3
LOC classification:
  • B785.M74 -- C35 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Montaigne and Transversality -- 1 Montaigne's Two Plutarchs -- 2 Assembling Strange Flowers: Montaigne and Diogenes Laertius -- 3 Montaigne's Pyrrho -- 4 The Deaths of the Philosophers -- 5 The Fabrication of Michel de Montaigne -- Conclusion: Montaigne's Transverse Self -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.
Summary: 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.
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Cover-Page -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Montaigne and Transversality -- 1 Montaigne's Two Plutarchs -- 2 Assembling Strange Flowers: Montaigne and Diogenes Laertius -- 3 Montaigne's Pyrrho -- 4 The Deaths of the Philosophers -- 5 The Fabrication of Michel de Montaigne -- Conclusion: Montaigne's Transverse Self -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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