Acknowledgments
Introduction: What Is Theory? / Zahi Zalloua
1. From Amateur Gentleman to Gentleman Amateur / George Hoffmann
2. Theory and Practice in "Du pedantisme" / Eric MacPhai
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3. Fashion / John O'Brien
4. Duty, Conciliation, and Ontology in the Essais / Jacob Vance
5. Montaigne Parrhesiastes: Foucault's Fearless Speech and Truthtelling in the Essays / Reinier Leushuis
6. "Qu'est-ce que la critique?" La Boétie, Montaigne, Foucault / Marc Schachter
7. Confession or Parrhesia? Foucault after Montaigne / Virginia Krause
8. Nasty, Brutish, and Long: The Life of Montaigne's Essais in Hobbes's Theory of Contract / David l. Sedley
9. Cannibalizing Experience in the Essais / Andrea Frisch
10. Rereading Montaigne's Memorable Stories: Sexuality and Gender in Vitry-le-François / Edith J. Benkov
11. Theorizing Sex and Gender in Montaigne / Todd W. Reeser
12. For a Theory of Forms in Montaigne / Philippe Desan
13. Fadaises & Dictons / Tom Conley
14. "Mettre la theorique avant la practique": Montaigne and the Practice of Theory / Richard L. Regosin
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