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Abstract This chapter proposes a new focus for scholarship on the representation of animals in Michel de Montaigne’s Essays. Whereas previous scholarship has constantly recentered the long description of animals in the “Apology for Raymond Sebond,” asserting that it is proof of the human folly the essayist decries elsewhere, this piece suggests a radical decentering of focus from the human to the nonhuman. If it were possible to see the world from a perspective other than human, what would we see that we have not noticed before? While Montaigne’s elaboration of this proposal underscores the limitations of human understanding, of both the animal and the divine, it also clearly gestures toward a world that exists beyond our mastery, beyond our comprehension, and beyond our theology—a world more closely connected to the divine than to the human.

Author

Kathleen Long

Publisher

Oxford University PressNew York

Published

2023

Language

EN

ISBN

9780197655573

Subjects

Philosophy, Political Science, Christian