Montaigne Studies: An Interdisciplinary Forum, University of Chicago - Division of Humanities, 2019.
EAN13 : ISSN10492917.
« Montaigne in America », numéro special de Montaigne Studies,
dirigé par Emiliano Ferrari, University of Chicago, XXXI (1-2), 2019.
This special issue offers a series of transhistorical and interdisciplinary studies that draw the dense network of contexts, uses and meanings assumed by Montaigne’s figure and work in America, along different fields (literature, philosophy, political theory, gender studies). From the century of independence to the contemporary, from Benjamin Franklin to Judith Butler, Montaigne acted as an influential voice in the ongoing transatlantic conversation that shaped the American social, political, and cultural identity.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
EMILIANO FERRARI Montaigne in America: contexts, uses, meanings
DANIEL R. BRUNSTETTER Benjamin Franklin’s Three Montaignes: The Essays, the Éloges, the Man
WILLIAM E. ENGEL Montaigne as cultural touchstone for Jefferson, Emerson, and Poe
DOUGLAS I. THOMPSON To “Philosophize upon Realities”: Montaignian Political Education in Melville’s Billy Budd
CHRISTOPHER EDELMAN Montaigne, Emerson and the Affirmation of Ordinary Life
NEIL KENNY “Have been thinking I’d better take a course in Montaigne”: John Dewey, Progressive Education, and Social Class
EMILIANO FERRARI Continental skepticism and American pragmatism: Transatlantic views from Montaigne to Richard Rorty
JOHN CHRISTIAN LAURSEN & KEVIN PHAM Montaigne in American Political Theory: Two Generations
THIERRY GONTIER Quel genre de “libéral” est Montaigne ? Autour d’une lecture américaine des Essais.
TELMA BIRCHAL & VITOR SOMMAVILLA Montaigne and Narrative Identity. A dialogue with Galen Strawson and Charles Taylor
MARC SCHACHTER Before Queer: Three Homophile Montaignes In Twentieth Century America
ZAHI ZALLOUA Essaying Trouble: Montaigne and Judith Butler
VARIA
BLANDINE PERONA Une source cachée du discours de Socrate dans “De la physionomie”
PHILIPPE DESAN Bibliographie des livres critiques sur Montaigne