Innovation as Spiritual Exercise: Montaigne and Pascal

, Taking Pascal's appropriation of Montaigne as its main example, this article asks what it means to "say something new" in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It argues that literary and philosophical innovation is best understood in reference to the rhetorical tradition, and it...

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Main Author: Force, Pierre (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005
In: Journal of the history of ideas
Year: 2005, Volume: 66, Issue: 1, Pages: 17-35
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