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Biancamaria Fontana Montaigne's Politics (Hardback). Author: Biancamaria Fontana. Title: Montaigne's Politics. Genre: Law & Politics. Format: Hardback. Release Date: 01/23/2008. Release Year: 2008. Item Length: 152mm. Item Weight: 425g. Further DetailsTitle: Montaigne's Politics Condition: New Description: Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure--the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in midlife to write his private, philosophical, and apolitical Essais. But, as Biancamaria Fontana argues in Montaigne's Politics, a novel, vivid account of the political meaning of the Essais in the context of Montaigne's life and times, his retirement from the Bordeaux parliament in 1570 "could be said to have marked the beginning, rather than the end, of his public career." He later served as mayor of Bordeaux and advisor to King Henry of Navarre, and, as Fontana argues, Montaigne's Essais very much reflect his ongoing involvement and preoccupation with contemporary politics--particularly the politics of France's civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. Fontana shows that the Essais, although written as a record of Montaigne's personal experiences, do nothing less than set forth the first major critique of France's ancien regime, anticipating the main themes of Enlightenment writers such as Voltaire and Diderot.Challenging the views that Montaigne was politically aloof or evasive, or that he was a conservative skeptic and supporter of absolute monarchy, Fontana explores many of the central political issues in Montaigne's work--the reform of legal institutions, the prospects of religious toleration, the role of public opinion, and the legitimacy of political regimes. Author: Biancamaria Fontana EAN: 9780691131221 Format: Hardback Country/Region of Manufacture: US ISBN-10: 0691131228 ISBN: 9780691131221 Language: English Item Height: 235mm Item Length: 152mm Item Weight: 425g Genre: Law & Politics Subtitle: Authority and Governance in the Essais Publisher: Princeton University Press Release Date: 01/23/2008 Release Year: 2008 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
