"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
"In this exhilarating and learned book on Montaigne's essays,
Lawrence D. Kritzman "contemporizes" 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."--H?l?ne Cixous
"Throughout his career, Lawrence D. Kritzman has demonstrated an
intimate knowledge of Montaigne's essays and an engagement with
French philosophy and critical theory. "The Fabulous Imagination"
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
Michel de Montaigne's (1533-1592) "Essais" 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 vantages. Through the
questions How shall I live? How can I know myself? he explored the
significance of monsters, nightmares, and traumatic memories; the
fear of impotence; the fragility of gender; and the act of
anticipating and coping with death. In this book, Lawrence D.
Kritzman traces Montaigne's development of the Western concept of
the self. For Montaigne, imagination lies at the core of an
internal universe that influences both the body and the mind.
Imagination is essential to human experience. Although Montaigne
recognized that the imagination can confuse the individual, "the
fabulous imagination" can be curative, enabling the mind's "I" to
sustain itself in the face of hardship.
Kritzman begins with Montaigne's study of the fragility of
gender and its relationship to the peripatetic movement of a
fabulous imagination. He then follows with the essayist's
examination of the act of mourning and the power of the imagination
to overcome the fear of death. Kritzman concludes with Montaigne's
views on philosophy, experience, and the connection between
self-portraiture, ethics, and oblivion. His reading demonstrates
that the mind's I, as Montaigne envisioned it, sees by imagining
that which is not visible, thus offering an alternative to the
logical positivism of our age.
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