{"title":"Montaigne's Perfect Friendship and Perfect Society: Philosophical Fictions as Useful Reminders","authors":"Christopher Edelman","doi":"10.1353/phl.2021.0035","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Michel de Montaigne's \"Of friendship\" is often read as a celebration of his relationship with his late friend Étienne de La Boétie. This is not wrong but, rather, incomplete. Drawing on the chapters of Montaigne's Essais that immediately follow \"Of friendship,\" this essay argues that Montaigne's chapter on friendship is part of a larger project in which he employs philosophical fictions—specifically, his \"perfect friendship\" with La Boétie and the \"perfect society\" that he depicts in \"Of cannibals\"—to reorient us in our relationships not only with our friends but also with our enemies.","PeriodicalId":51912,"journal":{"name":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/phl.2021.0035","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LITERARY THEORY & CRITICISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:Michel de Montaigne's "Of friendship" is often read as a celebration of his relationship with his late friend Étienne de La Boétie. This is not wrong but, rather, incomplete. Drawing on the chapters of Montaigne's Essais that immediately follow "Of friendship," this essay argues that Montaigne's chapter on friendship is part of a larger project in which he employs philosophical fictions—specifically, his "perfect friendship" with La Boétie and the "perfect society" that he depicts in "Of cannibals"—to reorient us in our relationships not only with our friends but also with our enemies.
摘要：米歇尔·德·蒙田的《友谊》经常被解读为对他与已故朋友Étienne de La博neneneea蒂关系的庆祝。这不是错误的，而是不完整的。这篇文章借鉴了蒙田的Essais中紧接着“友谊”的章节，认为蒙田关于友谊的章节是他运用哲学小说的一个更大项目的一部分——特别是，他与La Boétie的“完美友谊”以及他在《食人族》中描绘的“完美社会”——重新定位我们不仅与朋友的关系，还与敌人的关系。
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For more than a quarter century, Philosophy and Literature has explored the dialogue between literary and philosophical studies. The journal offers a constant source of fresh, stimulating ideas in the aesthetics of literature, theory of criticism, philosophical interpretation of literature, and literary treatment of philosophy. Philosophy and Literature challenges the cant and pretensions of academic priesthoods by publishing an assortment of lively, wide-ranging essays, notes, and reviews that are written in clear, jargon-free prose. In his regular column, editor Denis Dutton targets the fashions and inanities of contemporary intellectual life.
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