Tag: Renaissance
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Who Gets to Call Whom Barbarous? Montaigne on Custom and Cruelty
Montaigne on custom, cruelty and cultural judgement: Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson ask who gets to call another society barbarous.
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How Should We Learn to Live and Die? Montaigne on Philosophy and Experience
Explore Montaigne on death, education and everyday experience with Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson in the second Beyond the Text conversation.
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Why Did Montaigne Make Himself His Subject?
Why did Montaigne write about himself? Explore his Essays, changing identity and self-knowledge with Samuel Woodall and Jack Thomson.
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Review: Anthony Grafton, ‘Scaliger: Critic and Forger’ – E. H. Gombrich Lectures 2026, Lecture I
A review of Anthony Grafton’s first 2026 E. H. Gombrich Lecture on Joseph Scaliger, criticism, forgery and the unstable boundaries of scholarship.
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Skinner and Foucault: Genealogy and Historical Method
Compare Quentin Skinner and Michel Foucault on genealogy, the modern state and power, and explore their different approaches to historical interpretation.