Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship write by Marc D. Schachter. This book was released on 2016-12-05. Voluntary Servitude and the Erotics of Friendship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Focusing primarily on three early modern French authors, this book explores the erotics and politics of "voluntary servitude" in classical antiquity and the early modern period. These authors-Étienne de La Boétie, Michel de Montaigne, and Marie de Gournay-pursue related inquiries into voluntary servitude and self-control in marriage, friendship, pederasty and politics. Marc Schachter shows how Montaigne's intimate textual relationship with La Boétie provides him the opportunity to honor his beloved friend while transforming many of his ideas. Similarly, Marie de Gournay's editorial voluntary servitude to Montaigne provides her the occasion to authorize her own practice as a woman author and to engage critically with Montaigne's ideas even as she celebrates her friendship with him. Schachter's analyses are pursued particularly through the lens of Michel Foucualt's concept of governmentality which, like voluntary servitude, operates on three interrelated scales: self-control, control in interpersonal relationships, and political control. Schachter argues that thinking about the function of voluntary servitude through the lens of governmentality leads to a more nuanced understanding both of Foucault's late work and of the transformational possibilities offered by friendship and voluntary servitude in early modern France.
'Voluntary Servitude' and the Politics of Friendship
'Voluntary Servitude' and the Politics of Friendship - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook 'Voluntary Servitude' and the Politics of Friendship write by Marc David Schachter. This book was released on 2000. 'Voluntary Servitude' and the Politics of Friendship available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Montaigne: Selected Essays
Montaigne: Selected Essays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Montaigne: Selected Essays write by Michel de Montaigne. This book was released on 2012-03-15. Montaigne: Selected Essays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France
Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France write by Lewis C. Seifert. This book was released on 2016-03-03. Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Today the friendships that grab people’s imaginations are those that reach across inequalities of class and race. The friendships that seem to have exerted an analogous level of fascination in early modern France were those that defied the assumption, inherited from Aristotle and patristic sources, that friendships between men and women were impossible. Together, the essays in Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France tell the story of the declining intelligibility of classical models of (male) friendship and of the rising prominence of women as potential friends. The revival of Plato’s friendship texts in the sixteenth century challenged Aristotle’s rigid ideal of perfect friendship between men. In the seventeenth century, a new imperative of heterosociality opened a space for the cultivation of cross-gender friendships, while the spiritual friendships of the Catholic Reformation modeled relationships that transcended the gendered dynamics of galanterie. Men and Women Making Friends in Early Modern France argues that the imaginative experimentation in friendships between men and women was a distinctive feature of early modern French culture. The ten essays in this volume address friend-making as a process that is creative of self and responsive to changing social and political circumstances. Contributors reveal how men and women fashioned gendered selves, and also circumvented gender norms through concrete friendship practices. By showing that the benefits and the risks of friendship are magnified when gender roles and relations are unsettled, the essays in this volume highlight the relevance of early modern friend-making to friendship in the contemporary world.
Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture
Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture write by Freya Sierhuis. This book was released on 2016-05-13. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together scholars from literature and the history of ideas, Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture explores new ways of negotiating the boundaries between cognitive and bodily models of emotion, and between different versions of the will as active or passive. In the process, it juxtaposes the historical formation of such ideas with contemporary philosophical debates. It frames a dialogue between rhetoric and medicine, politics and religion, in order to examine the relationship between mind and body and between experience and the senses. Some chapters discuss literature, in studies of Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton; other essays concentrate on philosophical arguments, both Aristotelian and Galenic models from antiquity, and new mechanistic formations in Descartes, Hobbes and Spinoza. A powerful sense of paradox emerges in treatments of the passions in the early modern period, also reflected in new literary and philosophical forms in which inwardness was displayed, analysed and studied”the autobiography, the essay, the soliloquy”genres which rewrite the formation of subjectivity. At the same time, the frame of reference moves outwards, from the world of interior states to encounter the passions on a public stage, thus reconnecting literary study with the history of political thought. In between the abstract theory of political ideas and the inward selves of literary history, lies a field of intersections waiting to be explored. The passions, like human nature itself, are infinitely variable, and provoke both literary experimentation and philosophical imagination. Passions and Subjectivity in Early Modern Culture thus makes new connections between embodiment, selfhood and the emotions in order to suggest both new models of the self and new models for interdisciplinary history.
