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Writing Cogito: Montaigne, Descartes, and the Institution of the Modern Subject (S U N Y Series, Margins of Literature) (SUNY series, The Margins of Literature) by Hassan Melehy is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Combines literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis in order to consider a question that involves both literature and philosophy, namely, the foundation of the human subject.Combining literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis, Melehy examines a series of events at the outset of modernity involving both literature and philosophy. Through the work of Michel de Montaigne and Rene Descartes, Melehy considers the question of the foundation of the human subject, in the context of contemporary debates in literature and philosophy. Montaigne, through writing, examines the many possibilities of subjective experience, and finds that the subject takes shape in writing. Descartes comes to the subject in search of a principle to circumvent the uncertainty of language--'I think, therefore I am,'the cogito. But Descartes, Melehy shows, must continually depend on literary devices, on the properties of language whose effects he is so eager to escape--also deploying the devices to disguise the fact that they permeate his work.Hassan Melehy is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Vermont.

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Author

Hassan Melehy

Publisher

State University of New York Press

Published

1997

Language

EN

ISBN

9780791435717

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, Literary Fiction, History