CiNii 図書 - Writing cogito : Montaigne, Descartes, and the institution of the modern subject

Combining literary theory and history with detailed textual analysis, Melehy examines a series of events at the outset of modernity involving both literature and philosophy. Through the work of Michel de Montaigne and Rene Descartes, Melehy considers the question of the foundation of the human subject, in the context of contemporary debates in literature and philosophy. Montaigne, through writing, examines the many possibilities of subjective experience, and finds that the subject takes shape in writing. Descartes comes to the subject in search of a principle to circumvent the uncertainty of language--"I think, therefore I am," the cogito. But Descartes, Melehy shows, must continually depend on literary devices, on the properties of language whose effects he is so eager to escape--also deploying the devices to disguise the fact that they permeate his work.

Acknowledgments Part I Beginning 1. Institution 2. The Cartesian Web-Derrida and Foucault Part II Montaigne's Writing 3. Montaigne's "I" 4. The Essay: The Writing of the Subject Part III Descartes's Cogito 5. The Method: The Writing of the Subject 6. Descartes's Books Part IV Ending 7. The Rest of the Cogito Notes Bibliography Index

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