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Montaigne in Motion

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ISBN-10: 0226771318

ISBN-13: 9780226771311

Edition: 1985

Authors: Jean Starobinski, Arthur Goldhammer

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Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. For twenty-five years his work has had considerable influence on postmodern European critics (notably Derrida), scholars of French literature, and intellectual historians. Montaigne in Motion is his subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the Essais of Montaigne, whose deceptively plainspoken meditations have entranced readers and stimulated philosophers since their first publication in 1580 and 1595. Starobinski here offers a decidedly postmodern reading of Montaigne. In chapters dealing with the themes of public and private life, friendship, death, the…    
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Book details

List price: $56.00
Copyright year: 1985
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 5/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 360
Size: 0.63" wide x 0.90" long x 0.09" tall
Weight: 1.034

Arthur Goldhammer is the translator for numerous books including Neoconservatism: The Biography of a Movement, Algerian Chronicles, The Society of Equals, and Capital in the Twenty-First Century. He received the French-American Translation Prize in 1990 for his translation of A Critical Dictionary of the French Revolution.

Translator's preface
Preface
""And then, for whom are you writing?""
""This mask torn away""
""The relation to others""
The body's movement
Speaking love
""Each man in some sort exists in his work""
Concerning ""public affairs""
Notes
Index