コージー ディヴィッド    David, COZY
   コージー ディヴィッド
   所属
国際学部 英語コミュニケーション学科
 
文学研究科 英米文学専攻 博士前期課程
   職種
教授
発行・発表の年月 2003
形態種別 学術雑誌
標題 Off the Map: The Essayistic Journeys of Michel de Montaigne.
執筆形態 単著
掲載誌名 Shonan Kokusai Joshi Tanki Daigaku Kiyo
巻・号・頁 (10),83-94頁
概要 Renaissance scientists were no longer satisfied with, as it were, coloring within the lines. That is, they were no longer satisfied with justifying and refining the work of earlier practitioners. Rather, they were ready to strike out in new directions in just the same way as explorers like Columbus, Pisarro, and Cortés were doing, explorers who were not satisfied with retracing the established trade routes of the charted world, but set out instead in search of routes as yet untried. Montaigne, who created a form, the essay, to write not about what he knew, but to explore what he didn’t know, was engaged in a parallel project. In this essay I explore how the relationship between actual and metaphorical travel to new places, both physical and intellectual, is explored in the essays. I end by agreeing with Dudley M. Marchi, who writes, “If one significant post-modern attitude . . . is that truth can never be attained and that self-exploration will only lead to a perpetual deferral of meaning . . . then Montaigne is unexpectedly among us.”