Travel as metaphor : from Montaigne to Rousseau / Georges van den Abbeele.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van den Abbeele, Georges.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Views on travel.

Montaigne, Michel de.

Descartes, René, 1596-1650--Views on travel.

Descartes, René.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Views on travel.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Philosophy, French--16th century.

Philosophy, French.

Philosophy, French--17th century.

Philosophy, French--18th century.

Travel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxx, 176 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A detailed reading of Montaigne, Descartes, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, underscoring the foundational and potentially liberating force of travel in early modern French philosophy. "Abbeele's study offers more than the title promises; it goes beyond a mere illustration of the common place of travel as a metaphor for critical thought in order to investigate the extent to which the metaphor of travel might actually limit thought. In a series of readings examining the figure of travel in the writings of Montaigne, Descartes, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, Abbeele argues that "each writer's discourse allows for the elaboration of a metadiscourse opening onto the deconstruction of the writer's claims to a certain property (of his home, of his body, of his text, of his name)" Philosophy and Literature

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Economy of Travel

Chapter 1. Equestrian Montaigne

Circulating in Italy: Travel Journal

Unbridled Leisure: "Of Idleness

An Accidental Body

or, The Paternal Limit: "Of Practice

All Roads Lead Back to Rome: "Of Vanity

Chapter 2. Cartesian Coordinates

Finding One's Footing: Second Meditation

Wanderings in Error: Discourse on Method, Meditations

Chapter 3. Montesquieu's Grand Tour

A View from the Top: Journey from Graz to The Hague

The Occidental Tourist

or, The Drift of History: The Spirit of the Laws

Chapter 4. Pedestrian Rousseau

Pedagogy and the Teleology of Travel: Emile

Oedipal Returns

The Law of Succession: Emile and Sophie

or, the Solitary Ones

Walking and Writing: Confessions

The "Fall" of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Second Promenade

Notes

Index

A

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C

D

E

F

G

H

I

J

K

L

M

N

O

P

Q

R

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T

U

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W

X

Z.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-8372-7

OCLC:

229431589