Montaigne's Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend to a single goal: to live
This book explores a neglected feature of intellectual history and literature in the early modern period: the ways in which the body was theorized and represent
What is the body? How was it culturally constructed, conceived, and cultivated before and after the advent of rationalism and modern science? This interdiscipli