Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: What Is Theory? -- 1. From Amateur Gentleman to Gentleman Amateur -- 2. Theory and Practice in "Du pedantisme -- 3. Fashion -- 4. Duty, Conciliation, and Ontology in the Essais -- 5. Montaigne Parrhesiastes: Foucault's Fearless Speech and Truth-telling in the Essays -- 6. "Qu'est-ce que la critique?" La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault -- 7. Confession or Parrhesia? Foucault after Montaigne -- 8. Nasty, Brutish, and Long: The Life of Montaigne's Essais in Hobbes's Theory of Contract -- 9. Cannibalizing Experience in the Essais -- 10. Rereading Montaigne's Memorable Stories: Sexuality and Gender in Vitry-le-François -- 11. Theorizing Sex and Gender in Montaigne -- 12. For a Theory of Forms in Montaigne -- 13. Fadaises &amp -- Dictons -- 14. "Mettre la theorique avant la practique": Montaigne and the Practice of Theory -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z.

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