The Confessions of Montaigne
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4314564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John Martins (0000-0003-2725-6981), John Jeffries Martin (0000-0002-5463-782X, Duke University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 3 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 950-963 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel3040950 |
| OpenAlex | W2136923728 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 12 |
Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession-both juridical and ecclesiastical-with skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting. Repentance, moreover, made claims about self-transformation that Montaigne found improbable. This article traces these themes in the context of Montaigne's Essays, with particular attention to "On Some Verses of Virgil" and argues that, for Montaigne, a primary concern was finding a means of describing a self that he refused to reduce, as had Augustine and many other writers before and after him, to the homo interior
Art · Epistemology · Literature · Political science · Repentance · Skepticism · Theology · French Literature and Criticism · History · Law · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture
Ways of Lying
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
Dissimulation and the Culture of Secrecy in Early Modern Europe
On Continuities between Skepticism and Early Ethnography; Or, Montaigne's Providential Diversity
"Du repentir" (III
Sources of the self
Myths of Renaissance Individualism
The Complete Essays of Montaigne
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,09 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2015 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |