Philosophical concept
Inquiry through self-portrait
Inquiry through self-portrait takes a changing life as material for examination, not to impose a model but to test contradictions among rule, body, and conduct.
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- Thinkers
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- Traditions
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Understand uses of the concept
Inquiry through self-portrait takes a changing life as material for examination, not to impose a model but to test contradictions among rule, body, and conduct.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 106 passages across 1 works, including The Essays. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: je suis moi-même la matière de mon livre, I am myself the matter of my book, me peins tout entier, paint myself entire
Works where the concept is identified
- The EssaysMichel de Montaigne · 106 passages