Naslov
Resisting Counsel: The Idea of Self-Help in the Renaissance

Autori
Lupić, Ivan

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, ostalo, znanstveni

Skup
American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting

Mjesto i datum
Seattle (WA), Sjedinjene Američke Države, 26.03.2015. - 29.03.2015

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Counsel ; self-help ; Michel de Montaigne

Sažetak
Although the Renaissance is ordinarily, and for the most part rightly, seen as the great age of advice— be that advice spiritual, moral, or political, applied to the household or to the state—we occasionally hear very compelling voices resisting the idea that others should participate in the making of our decisions and the conduct of our lives. He claims, as usual, that he is a special case, but Michel de Montaigne is far from being alone when in his essay “On Repentance” he writes that the well-meant opinions of others “are just flies and specks that distract my will.” Montaigne apparently neither takes nor gives advice, except as a formality that he observes out of respect for counsel-giving and counsel-taking as favorite ideologies and customs of his age. “My declared wish, ” he explicitly states, “is to be wholly self- reliant and self-contained.” The aim of this paper is to identify Montaigne’s fellows in the Renaissance, both fictional and real, and to consider the idea of self-help in its relation both to ancient precedents and to modern examples.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija, Filologija, Povijest, Književnost

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