Montaigne: Montaigne's message and method

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Dikka Berven
Taylor & Francis, 1995 - Literary Collections - 456 pages
First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Contents

Volume Introduction xiii
1
Montaigne or the Art of Being Truthful
35
The Essais and Socrates
58
Montaigne and the Savage Infirmity
71
Optimism in the Essays of Montaigne
86
Montaigne en mouvement
108
Montaigne et la peinture du passage
129
The Nouveaux Docteurs and the Problem of Montaignes
178
Contemporary
257
In Disjointed PartsPar articles decousus
273
Remarks on Montaignes
287
The Centre of the Pensées
305
Montaignes Rejection of Inner Conflict and his Chapter
335
Experience as Narration
345
What Is Civilization? Montaignes Response to Columbus
361
Montaignes Rejection of Reason of State in De lUtile
377

Montaigne and the Imagery of Political Discourse
191
Evolution or Convolution?
211
Structure and Method
229
Montaignes Last Words
239
On Reading the Essais Differently
424
Acknowledgments
431
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Dikka Berven graduated from Pacific Lutheran Univ. in Tacoma, Washington, with a B.A. degree in French Literature and Mathematics. She earned both M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland. She is presently teaching at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan.

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