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<p>"This is one of the few books on Montaigne that fuses analytical skill with humane awareness of why Montaigne matters."—Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of Humanities, Yale University</p> <p>"In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays, Lawrence D. Kritzman <i>contemporizes</i> the great writer. Reading him from today's deconstructive America, Kritzman discovers Montaigne always already deep into a dialogue with Jacques Derrida and psychoanalysis. One cannot but admire this fabulous act of translation."—Hélène Cixous</p> <p>"Throughout his career, Lawrence D. Kritzman has demonstrated an intimate knowledge of Montaigne's essays and an engagement with French philosophy and critical theory. <i>The Fabulous Imagination</i> sheds precious new light on one of the founders of modern individualism and on his crucial quest for self-knowledge."—Jean Starobinski, professor emeritus of French literature, University of Geneva</p> <p>Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) <i>Essais</i> was a profound study of human subjectivity. More than three hundred years before the advent of psychoanalysis, Montaigne embarked on a remarkable quest to see and imagine the self from a variety of

Author

Lawrence D. Kritzman

Publisher

New York: Columbia University Press

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231119931

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction