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• W308779914 abstract "The figure of the lame person is a troubling one in `Des boyteux.' The lame person appears relatively late in the essay. His presence is never fully explained in any straightforward way by the essayist. Especially because it occurs in an essay, like others by Montaigne, in which the title seems tenuously connected with the content, the representation of the lame person eludes interpretation. In the essay `Des boyteux' lameness acts as a cipher for a cluster of terms conveying epistemological instability and experiential insecurity. Montaigne calls into question received philosophical and metaphysical standards. His account of the Guerre story functions as a microreading of these concerns and dramatizes Montaigne's proposed new approach to such issues. In particular, what Montaigne omits from his texts--key features, found in others' accounts, are not present--, requires the reader to engage actively in the hermeneutic enterprise, to suggest why these lacunae exist. The various forms in which Montaigne discusses lameness are found in a variety of contexts, among them experiential, architectural, legal and sexual. Lameness is valued rather than denigrated in this essay; it is offered as the physical concretization of a way for understanding the world, for processing and evaluating evidence, and for attaining judgement. As Montaigne views it, lameness sketches its own idiosyncratic pathway toward a more real and active knowledge, describing how a reader should read. Scholars, notably the historian Natalie Zemon Davis, have interpreted `Des boyteux' as a critique of the instability of human reason.(1) In my reading, however, the essay does not indict all human reason, but rather only reason faultily arrived at and not personally validated. Davis sees lameness as Montaigne's symbol for unstable judgement, but I believe that Montaigne commends lameness. He lauds the slowness with which the lame person proceeds, encouraging us to come to conclusions thoughtfully and in timely fashion. if necessary by retracing the steps we have already taken or by shifting our position. This viewpoint is consonant with the other Essais, particularly in Book III, understandably so, since this is the book most concerned with the construction of the self.(2) Book III also valorizes process rather than product. Limping is seen as the embodiment of healthy skepticism: Ordinairement je trouve a doubter en ce que le commentaire n'a daigne toucher. Je bronche plus volontiers en pays plat, comme certains chevaux que je connois, qui chopent plus souvent en chemin uny.(3) The emphasis is not on what one knows, but on how one arrives at an individual interpretation. Thus, while Natalie Zemon Davis focuses on reason as product, I see Montaigne praising lameness as a process, a metaphor for a way of learning. A `Leg Up' on the Legal System The story of Guerre is well-known, but bears rehearsing here, since Montaigne tells it with an intentional twist. Young flees his home town and his bride. During his absence, a man claiming to be presents himself, and is accepted by many of the villagers as authentic. His wife shares in the consensus. However, a dispute over family property with his uncle leads Martin to make some blunders, and some people begin to doubt that he is the real Guerre. A trial ensues. The judges are so convinced by Martin's oratory and his wife's assertions that he is the real that they are about to so declare him. Suddenly, a man enters the courtroom on crutches, claiming to be Guerre. It now comes to light that the real had gone to Spain and had been wounded in the wars. Now, Martin is revealed to be an impostor; he does not have the requisite identifying lameness. In this tale, lameness is a metaphor for re-reading, for re-organizing or redistributing the emphases placed on data. It is significant that Montaigne never makes explicit reference to the fact that Guerre was lame. …" @default.
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• W308779914 title "He Doesn't Have a Leg to Stand On: Lameness and Knowledge in 'Des Boyteux.'(Analysis of Essay by Michel Eyquem De Montaigne.)" @default.
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