Montaigne and the Life of Freedom

More than any other early modern text, Montaigne''s Essais have come to be associated with the emergence of a distinctively modern subjectivity, defined in opposition to the artifices of language and social performance. Felicity Green challenges this interpretation with a compelling revisionist reading of Montaigne''s text, centred on one of his deepest but hitherto most neglected preoccupations: ...