All Outputs (2)

Fashion (2009)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2009). Fashion. In Z. Zalloua (Ed.), Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne (55-74). University of Washington Press

Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers today. Montaigne After Theory... Read More about Fashion.

"O Courbes, méandre…": Montaigne, Epicurus and the Art of Slowness (2009)
Book Chapter
O'Brien, J. (2009). "O Courbes, méandre…": Montaigne, Epicurus and the Art of Slowness. In A. Holland, & R. Scholar (Eds.), Pre-histories and Afterlives. Studies in Critical Method (81-93). Legenda

If the past is indeed a foreign country, then how can we make sense of its richness and difference, without approaching it on our terms alone? ‘Pre-histories’ and ‘afterlives’, methods that have emerged in recent work by Terence Cave, offer new ways... Read More about "O Courbes, méandre…": Montaigne, Epicurus and the Art of Slowness.