Marc Foglia, Montaigne, pédagogue du jugement

The Confessions of Montaigne

Montaigne rarely repented and he viewed confession—both juridical and ecclesiastical—with skepticism. Confession, Montaigne believed, forced a mode of self-representation onto the speaker that was inevitably distorting. Repentance, moreover, made claims about self-transformation that Montaigne found improbable. This article traces these themes in the context of Montaigne‘s Essays, with particul...

Innovation as Spiritual Exercise: Montaigne and Pascal

The rediscovery of the rhetorical tradition in the past thirty years has transformed the study of early modern authors like Montaigne and Pascal. The categories of traditional literary history, like originality, influence, predecessors, and followers, are now seen as inadequate when it comes to explaining how Montaigne and Pascal thought of themselves as authors and how they understood the proc...

Montaigne and the Coherence of Eclecticism1

Since the publication of Pierre Hadot’s essays on ancient philosophy by Arnold Davidson in 1995,2 Michel Foucault’s late work on ‘‘the care of the self’’3 has appeared in a new light. We now know that Hadot’s work was familiar to Foucault as early as the 1950s.4 It is also clear that Foucault’s notion of ‘‘techniques of the self’’ is very close to what Hadot calls ‘‘spiritual exercises.’’ At th...

Search Engines and Privacy Marc Roessler marc

This paper analyzes the impact of using search engines on the user's privacy. Several privacy related issues were found, such as search engines leaking the query string to advertising companies or sharing user identifiers with other sites. This paper will show the way this is accomplished as well as possible countermeasures to be taken by the user to preserve her privacy.

la place d'etienne-marc quatremère dans l'iranologie française du xixe siècle