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9781591022602

Textual Friendship : The Essay as Impossible Encounter from Plato and Montaigne to Levinas and Derrida

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  • ISBN13:

    9781591022602

  • ISBN10:

    1591022606

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2004-12-01
  • Publisher: Humanity Books
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Summary

This is a work of great erudition that makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the expressive possibilities and philosophical implications of the essay.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9(2)
Abbreviations 11(4)
Introduction 15(16)
PART I: THE ESSAY AND TEXTUAL FRIENDSHIP
Essaying the Essay
31(17)
Textual Friendship
48(27)
PART II: AN ETHICAL GENEALOGY OF THE ESSAY
Three Levels of the Essay (Montaigne I)
75(13)
Rhetoric: The Production of a Friendly Ethos
88(27)
Dialogue and Hermeneutic Challenge
115(28)
Otherwise Than Said---The Pyrrhonian Turn
143(30)
Essayistic Experience
173(26)
PART III: FROM PLATO TO DERRIDA: SOME READINGS ON TEXTUAL FRIENDSHIP IN THE ESSAY
Introduction
189(10)
Rhetoric of the Lover (Plato)
199(19)
Books Are the Best Stoics (Cicero, Seneca)
218(25)
Loving Your Enemy (St. Augustine)
243(15)
From the Dead Friend to an Unborn Reader (Montaigne II)
258(28)
Anxiety of Friendship (Bacon, Emerson)
286(35)
Sexual Difference (Saint-Evremond, Mme de Lambert)
321(36)
A Noncommunity of Writing (Derrida)
357(40)
Farewell 397(10)
Notes 407(52)
Bibliography 459(24)
Subject Index 483(4)
Author Index 487

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