Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais

Name: Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais
Brand: Edinburgh University Press
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Thinking Relationally with Seneca and Plutarch

By: Luke O'Sullivan

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Hardcover | 9 December 2024

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256 Pages

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Doubtful Writing offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical new mode of doubtful writing; one with which Montaigne could conduct and communicate a double, unresolved, and contradictory mode of thinking.

Seneca and Plutarch have long been recognised as Montaigne's preferred authors: he himself, on numerous occasions, holds them up as authors of the books he could not be without and their influence on his informal, fragmentary style is widely acknowledged. But these authors have, until now, escaped significant attention from the perspective of philosophical uncertainty. Doubtful Writing argues that it was with these authors - dogmatists who nevertheless practised a 'doubtful and unresolved way of writing' - that Montaigne developed his own mani re de dire ('way of saying'). Reading Montaigne through this lens offers a valuable new perspective on doubt in the Essais and in the early modern period more broadly, understanding doubt not only as a philosophical system or set of arguments but as a practice of thinking in and with writing.

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Luke O'Sullivan is one of the best close-readers of Montaigne around. In this book, he provides a compelling new account of the French essayist's doubtful mode of writing, and of his relationship to Seneca and Plutarch.

--Warren Boutcher, Queen Mary University of London

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