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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
March 2013
Print publication year:
2012
Online ISBN:
9781139169233
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139169233
Subjects:
Literature, Area Studies, History of Ideas, European Literature, History, European Studies, History of Ideas and Intellectual History
Series:
Ideas in Context (101)
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Book description

More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of Montaigne's text, centred on one of his deepest but hitherto most neglected preoccupations: the need to secure for himself a sphere of liberty and independence that he can properly call his own, or himself. Montaigne and the Life of Freedom restores the Essais to its historical context by examining the sources, character and significance of Montaigne's project of self-study. That project, as Green shows, reactivates and reshapes ancient practices of self-awareness and self-regulation, in order to establish the self as a space of inner refuge, tranquillity and dominion, free from the inward compulsion of the passions and from subjection to external objects, forces and persons.

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