The fabulous imagination
Subtitle: on Montaigne's Essays
By: Lawrence D. Kritzman.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9780231119924; 9780231119931
Subjects: Montaigne, Michel de, -- 1533-1592; Imagination (Philosophy)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Monster theory: Montaigne's fantastic monsters and the construction of gender; title: Representing the monster : cognition, cripples, and other limp parts in "Des boyteux" (III, 11); title: Death sentences: Montaigne's fraternity : La Boétie on trial; title: Montaigne on horseback, or, The simulation of death; title: The anxiety of death : narrative and subjectivity in "De la diversion" (III, 4); title: Excavating Montaigne : the essayist on trial; title: Philosophical impostures: The Socratic makeover : the ethics of the impossible in "De la phisionomie" (III, 12); title: Romancing the stone.