Felicity Green

Montaigne and the Life of Freedom (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

More than any other early modern text, Montaigne's Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of Montaigne's text, centred on one of his deepest but hitherto most neglected preoccupations: the need to secure for himself a sphere of liberty and independence that he can properly call his own, or himself. Montaigne and the Life of Freedom restores the Essais to its historical context by examining the sources, character and significance of Montaigne's project of self-study. That project, as Green shows, reactivates and reshapes ancient practices of self-awareness and self-regulation, in order to establish the self as a space of inner refuge, tranquillity and dominion, free from the inward compulsion of the passions and from subjection to external objects, forces and persons.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781139540315
• Artikelnr.: 52991062

Autorenporträt

Felicity Green is the best-selling fantasy and paranormal mystery author of over 30 books, in English and German. A German native, Felicity spent over a decade in England, studying English literature and drama and pursuing her dream of becoming an actress. She toured the British Isles with theatre groups and fell in love with all those magical places in England, Scotland, and Ireland that continue to inspire her novels. Once Felicity started writing her own plays, she knew she had found her calling. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from University of Sussex. When Felicity isn't writing or reading, she likes traveling, yoga, hiking, and trying out new recipes. Felicity lives at the German-Swiss border with her husband, her daughters, and an idiosyncratic Main Coon cat. www.felicitygreenauthor.com

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Freedom and the essai
2. The languages of the self: Montaigne's classical inheritance
3. Self-possession, public engagement and slavery
4. Oysiveté and nonchalance: liberty as carelessness
5. The art of self-management
Conclusion.