{"id":2704,"date":"2008-10-16T13:51:41","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T17:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=2704"},"modified":"2008-10-16T14:39:06","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T18:39:06","slug":"montaigne-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/montaigne-update","title":{"rendered":"Montaigne update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hmm. Maybe I should<\/em> have pushed my Montaigne-as-blogger idea, floated a few weeks ago when I wrote up Of presumption<\/a> in my Monday Morning Montaigne<\/a> series. Here’s a piece from Andrew Sullivan’s article “Why I Blog”<\/a> in the new ish of The Atlantic<\/em>:<\/p>\n

But perhaps the quintessential blogger avant la lettre<\/em> was Montaigne. His essays were published in three major editions, each one longer and more complex than the previous. A passionate skeptic, Montaigne amended, added to, and amplified the essays for each edition, making them three-dimensional through time. In the best modern translations, each essay is annotated, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, by small letters (A, B, and C) for each major edition, helping the reader see how each rewrite added to or subverted, emphasized or ironized, the version before. Montaigne was living his skepticism, daring to show how a writer evolves, changes his mind, learns new things, shifts perspectives, grows older \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and that this, far from being something that needs to be hidden behind a veneer of unchanging authority, can become a virtue, a new way of looking at the pretensions of authorship and text and truth. Montaigne, for good measure, also peppered his essays with myriads of what bloggers would call external links. His own thoughts are strewn with and complicated by the aphorisms and anecdotes of others. Scholars of the sources note that many of these \u00e2\u20ac\u0153money quotes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were deliberately taken out of context, adding layers of irony to writing that was already saturated in empirical doubt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hmm. Maybe I should have pushed my Montaigne-as-blogger idea, floated a few weeks ago when I wrote up Of presumption in my Monday Morning Montaigne series. Here’s a piece from Andrew Sullivan’s article “Why I Blog” in the new ish of The Atlantic: But perhaps the quintessential blogger avant la lettre was Montaigne. His essays … <\/p>\n

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