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Project

Perception and conception of the self in the early modern period: the proasic rhetorics of Coornhert and Charron
Code
01J09808
Duration
01 January 2008 → 31 December 2012
Funding
Regional and community funding: Special Research Fund
Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • History
    • Language studies
    • Literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of language studies
    • Theory and methodology of linguistics
    • Theory and methodology of literary studies
    • Other languages and literary studies
    • Theory and methodology of philosophy
Keywords
early modern period arts Dutch literature Literary studies
 
Project description

The early-modern period, Michel Foucault has argued, is the cradle of 'governmentality'. In this project, Dirck Volckertsz. Coornherts Zedekunst dat is wellevenskunste (1586) and Pierre Charron's De La Sagesse (1601) are analysed rheotrically and conceptually in view of Foucault's argument.