{"id":2239,"date":"2008-08-12T07:51:33","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2008-08-12T07:51:33","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T11:51:33","slug":"monday-morning-montaigne-the-reloadening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/monday-morning-montaigne-the-reloadening","title":{"rendered":"Monday Morning Montaigne: The Reloadening!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I gave up on my Monday Morning Montaigne<\/a> project a year ago for two reasons. The first one was that I reached Apology for Raymond Sebond, the central essay of the second book. This essay — the introduction to (and kindasorta defense of) Sebond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Natural Theology<\/em>, which Montaigne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dad asked him to translate — runs almost 180 pages and, though translator Donald Frame breaks it up into several sections, I couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see how I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d make it through that essay and manage to convey anything of interest to the readers of this blog.<\/p>\n

The second reason I gave up was that I convinced myself that nothing I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d written in my Monday Morning Montaigne posts was of any interest to the readers of this blog. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think I expected a rousing conversation among commenters, few of whom likely have read more than a smattering of Montaigne, and none of whom were exactly going to read along or look back into the essays to counter my points. Still, there was so little response to it, I figured no one would notice it was missing.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, my posts were more like timed charges. In the last year, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been getting hits from different colleges and universities\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 IP addresses, presumably by students who are looking to cheat on their Montaigne assignments. I mean, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153who are researching various critical opinions of Montaigne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s essays online (in order to cheat on their papers).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

It struck me that I put myself in a position of responsibility with this project. Without Monday Morning Montaigne,<\/em> these students would have no choice but to read one of the other two million google hits for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153montaigne essay opinion,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and who knows what sort of perspective they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d cobble together? Who knows when they’d get around to finding my posts, but better they rely on my flawed, rambling viewpoints than those of someone who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s actually done some research into Montaigne! With half-assed misreading comes half-assed responsibility! Excelsior!<\/p>\n

So I decided to dive headlong into the aforementioned Apology this weekend. You can expect the first installment on Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I gave up on my Monday Morning Montaigne project a year ago for two reasons. The first one was that I reached Apology for Raymond Sebond, the central essay of the second book. This essay — the introduction to (and kindasorta defense of) Sebond\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Natural Theology, which Montaigne\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dad asked him to translate — runs … <\/p>\n

Continue reading “Monday Morning Montaigne: The Reloadening!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,45],"tags":[118,258],"class_list":["post-2239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literature","category-monday-morning-montaigne","tag-montaigne","tag-raymond-sebond"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-A7","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2266,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/monday-morning-montaigne-an-apology-for-raymond-sebond-take-1","url_meta":{"origin":2239,"position":0},"title":"Monday Morning Montaigne: An Apology for Raymond Sebond, Take 1","author":"Gil","date":"August 18, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for the long-unawaited return of Monday Morning Montaigne! 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