Petra Ellerby

Senior Project Advisor

Tom Moore

Document Type

Project

Publication Date

Spring 2023

Keywords

Michel de Montaigne, Montaigne, history, historiography, humanism, interdisciplinary, affect, art, emotion, epistemology

Abstract

The intellectual product housed within this two-part document is the result of an attempt both to engage with unaccustomed formats—fine art, design—and to do justice by a set of idiosyncratic methodological tenets that have played a pivotal role in my personal trajectory, my own internal history of ideas. In spite of its compound nature, the project remains faithful to a fundamentally humanistic spirit: it is an allusive study in cross-disciplinary thinking, an affective attempt to summarize, define, communicate, and defend one specific way of seeing and understanding. At its core, my capstone serves as a venue (even an excuse) for me to bring together all the things I love the most, to explain why I love them, and to lay out a roadmap for the cognitive process I identify with their fullest or most complete use.

Section One (pp. 1-44) contains a scanned book of sketches; Section Two (pp. 45-110) includes a written thesis.

Department

Honors

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Historiography; Humanism; Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; Knowledge, Theory of; Emotions

Subjects - Names (LCNAF)

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592

Type

Text

Rights

Copying of this document in whole or in part is allowable only for scholarly purposes. It is understood, however, that any copying or publication of this document for commercial purposes, or for financial gain, shall not be allowed without the author’s written permission.

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

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