{"product_id":"the-je-ne-sais-quoi-in-early-modern-europe-encounters-with-a-certain-something-0199274401","title":"The Je-Ne-Sais-Quoi in Early Modern Europe: Encounters with a Certain Something","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0199274401\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Scholar, Richard\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e New\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat is the je-ne-sais-quoi, if it is indeed something at all, and how can it be put into words? In addressing these questions, Richard Scholar offers the first full-length study of the je-ne-sais-quoi and its fortunes in early modern Europe. He examines the expression's rise and fall as a noun and as a topic of philosophical and literary debate, its cluster of meanings, and the scattered traces of its \"pre-history.\" Placing major writers of the period such as Montaigne, Shakespeare, Descartes, Corneille, and Pascal alongside some of their lesser-known contemporaries, Scholar argues that the je-ne-sais-quoi serves above all to trace a series of first-person encounters with a certain something as difficult to explain as its effects are intense, and which can be expressed only by being expressed differently. He shows how the je-ne-sais-quoi comes to express that certain something in the early modern period, and suggests that it remains capable of doing so today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mia Karts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51669512093984,"sku":"NEW0199274401","price":70.33,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0980\/7426\/3840\/files\/71qI9aIm7RL.jpg?v=1779050341","url":"https:\/\/miakarts.com\/products\/the-je-ne-sais-quoi-in-early-modern-europe-encounters-with-a-certain-something-0199274401","provider":"Miakarts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}