{"title":"Luke O'Sullivan","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"writing-doubt-in-montaignes-essais-by-luke-osullivan-9781399522977","title":"Writing Doubt in Montaigne's Essais","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eDoubtful Writing\u003c\/i\u003e offers a major reassessment of philosophical uncertainty in one of the early modern period's foremost doubters. It argues that Montaigne's engagement, his endless 'commerce' with two dogmatists, Seneca and Plutarch, produced a radical new mode of doubtful writing; one with which Montaigne could conduct and communicate a double, unresolved, and contradictory mode of thinking.\u003cbr\u003eSeneca and Plutarch have long been recognised as Montaigne's preferred authors: he himself, on numerous occasions, holds them up as authors of the books he could not be without and their influence on his informal, fragmentary style is widely acknowledged. But these authors have, until now, escaped significant attention from the perspective of philosophical uncertainty. \u003ci\u003eDoubtful Writing\u003c\/i\u003e argues that it was with these authors  dogmatists who nevertheless practised a 'doubtful and unresolved way of writing'  that Montaigne developed his own \u003ci\u003emaniere de dire\u003c\/i\u003e ('way of saying'). Reading Montaigne through this lens offers a valuable new perspective on doubt in the \u003ci\u003eEssais\u003c\/i\u003e and in the early modern period more broadly, understanding doubt not only as a philosophical system or set of arguments but as a practice of thinking in and with writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934435393772,"sku":"9781399522977","price":88.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781399522977-writing-doubt-in-montaigne-s-essais.jpg?v=1783919285"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/luke-osullivan.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}