Title: The fabulous imagination : on Montaigne's Essays /
Authors: Kritzman, Lawrence D.
Publisher: Columbia University Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Montaigne, Michel de,; Imagination (Philosophy)
Contents: Monster theory -- Montaigne's fantastic monsters and the construction of gender -- Representing the monster : cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in "Des boyteux" (III, 11) -- Death sentences -- Montaigne's fraternity : La Boétie on trial -- Montaigne on horseback, or, The simulation of death -- The anxiety of death : narrative and subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4) -- Excavating Montaigne : the essayist on trial -- Philosophical impostures -- The Socratic makeover : the ethics of the impossible in "De la phisionomie" (III, 12) -- Romancing the stone : "De l'experiene" (III, 13).