CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Montaigne Is Theory

PART I  MONSTER THEORY

1    Montaigne’s Fantastic Monsters and the Construction of Gender

2    Representing the Monster: Cognition, Cripples, and Other Limp Parts in “Des boyteux” (III, 11)

PART II  DEATH SENTENCES

3    Montaigne’s Fraternity: La Boétie on Trial

4    Montaigne on Horseback, or the Simulation of Death

5    The Anxiety of Death: Narrative and Subjectivity in “De la diversion” (III, 4)

6    Excavating Montaigne: The Essayist on Trial

PART III  PHILOSOPHICAL IMPOSTURES

7    The Socratic Makeover: The Ethics of the Impossible in “De la phisionomie” (III, 12)

8    Romancing the Stone: “De l’experience” (III, 13)

Notes

Works Cited

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