The fabulous imagination : on Montaigne's Essays

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""This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."" & mdash;Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University""In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman contemporizes the great writer. Reading him from today's deconstructive America, Kritzman discovers Montaigne always already deep into a dialogue with Jacques Derrida and psychoanalysis. One cannot but admire this fabulous act of translation."" & mdash;Hélène Cixous""Throughout his career, Lawr. Read more... Abstract: Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) Essais, was a profound study of human subjectivity. More than three hundred years before the advent of psychoanalysis, Montaigne embarked on a remarkable quest to see and imagine the self from a variety of vantage points. This title traces Montaigne's development of the Western concept of the self. Read more...