The Discipline of Subjectivity: An Essay on MontaigneThrough an interpretation of Montaigne's philosophical vision as expressed in his Essays, Ermanno Bencivenga contributes to the current debate about the death of the subject by developing a view of the self as a project of continuous construction rather than the source and foundation of knowledge. This latter, Cartesian conception of self consciousness as a logical and epistemological starting point is, Bencivenga contends, delusive: the certainty it