Author: Michel de Montaigne
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736417551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
In his own lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, "I am myself the matter of my book", was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne would come to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt which began to emerge at that time. He is most famously known for his skeptical remark, "Que sçay-je?" ("What do I know?", in Middle French; now rendered as Que sais-je? in modern French). Remarkably modern even to readers today, Montaigne's attempt to examine the world through the lens of the only thing he can depend on implicitly—his own judgment—makes him more accessible to modern readers than any other author of the Renaissance. Much of modern literary non-fiction has found inspiration in Montaigne and writers of all kinds continue to read him for his masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal storytelling.
Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736417551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
In his own lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, "I am myself the matter of my book", was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne would come to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt which began to emerge at that time. He is most famously known for his skeptical remark, "Que sçay-je?" ("What do I know?", in Middle French; now rendered as Que sais-je? in modern French). Remarkably modern even to readers today, Montaigne's attempt to examine the world through the lens of the only thing he can depend on implicitly—his own judgment—makes him more accessible to modern readers than any other author of the Renaissance. Much of modern literary non-fiction has found inspiration in Montaigne and writers of all kinds continue to read him for his masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal storytelling.
Publisher: anboco
ISBN: 3736417551
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1710
Book Description
In his own lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that, "I am myself the matter of my book", was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne would come to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt which began to emerge at that time. He is most famously known for his skeptical remark, "Que sçay-je?" ("What do I know?", in Middle French; now rendered as Que sais-je? in modern French). Remarkably modern even to readers today, Montaigne's attempt to examine the world through the lens of the only thing he can depend on implicitly—his own judgment—makes him more accessible to modern readers than any other author of the Renaissance. Much of modern literary non-fiction has found inspiration in Montaigne and writers of all kinds continue to read him for his masterful balance of intellectual knowledge and personal storytelling.
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Languages : en
Pages : 426
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Pages : 426
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The Essays of Michael, Lord of Montaigne
Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Category : French essays
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Category : French essays
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
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Michel de Montaigne en poésie
Author: Jean-Marie Rainaud
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140042913
Category : Poetry
Languages : fr
Pages : 110
Book Description
Ce modeste ouvrage répond à la volonté d'inviter les citoyens à pratiquer les Essais , souvent cités et rarement lus et comportant des développements sur des thèmes occultés comme le divorce, le sexe ou le viol. Lire Montaigne permet de saisir le poids des mots, la richesse de la pensée et l'originalité du vocabulaire. Les auteurs y adjoignent leur propre vision et revendiquent la subjectivité de leur texte.
Publisher: Editions L'Harmattan
ISBN: 2140042913
Category : Poetry
Languages : fr
Pages : 110
Book Description
Ce modeste ouvrage répond à la volonté d'inviter les citoyens à pratiquer les Essais , souvent cités et rarement lus et comportant des développements sur des thèmes occultés comme le divorce, le sexe ou le viol. Lire Montaigne permet de saisir le poids des mots, la richesse de la pensée et l'originalité du vocabulaire. Les auteurs y adjoignent leur propre vision et revendiquent la subjectivité de leur texte.
Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne ... To which is added a short character of the author and translator, by way of letter; written by the ... Marquess Hallifax. Made English by Charles Cotton ... The second edition
Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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Languages : en
Pages : 794
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The essays of Michael de Montaigne, translated into English ... Ninth edition. The translater identified in the preface as Charles Cotton
Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Languages : en
Pages : 938
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Essays of Michel de Montaigne --
Author: Michel de Montaigne
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513128353
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays and letters by Michel de Montaigne. Originally published in French as Essais (1580), this edition was translated by English poet Charles Cotton in the late-17th century and republished by William Carew Hazlitt, the grandson of renowned English essayist and critic William Hazlitt. “No man living is more free from this passion [of sorrow] than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom, virtue, and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise!” In his masterful essays, Michel de Montaigne eschews the typical distancing required of the authorial voice in order to investigate public matters through a personal lens. As the subject of his own musings, he provides both a stirring self-portrait and an invaluable new voice that will resonate throughout Western literature. Unlike the Enlightenment thinkers who would follow in his footsteps, Montaigne is skeptical of the possibility of human certainty and takes an ethical stand against the European colonial project in the Americas and elsewhere. At times serious, at others tongue-in-cheek, his wide-ranging topics include conscience, politics, sorrow, solitude, fear, friendship, war, and poetry. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne were written at a crossroads in human history—between Renaissance and Enlightenment, Catholicism and Protestantism, Montaigne argues that to look outward requires we first look within, and that the quest for happiness requires us to accept what we cannot know. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essays of Michel de Montaigne is a classic of French philosophy reimagined for modern readers.
Publisher: Graphic Arts Books
ISBN: 1513128353
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 611
Book Description
The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays and letters by Michel de Montaigne. Originally published in French as Essais (1580), this edition was translated by English poet Charles Cotton in the late-17th century and republished by William Carew Hazlitt, the grandson of renowned English essayist and critic William Hazlitt. “No man living is more free from this passion [of sorrow] than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom, virtue, and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise!” In his masterful essays, Michel de Montaigne eschews the typical distancing required of the authorial voice in order to investigate public matters through a personal lens. As the subject of his own musings, he provides both a stirring self-portrait and an invaluable new voice that will resonate throughout Western literature. Unlike the Enlightenment thinkers who would follow in his footsteps, Montaigne is skeptical of the possibility of human certainty and takes an ethical stand against the European colonial project in the Americas and elsewhere. At times serious, at others tongue-in-cheek, his wide-ranging topics include conscience, politics, sorrow, solitude, fear, friendship, war, and poetry. The Essays of Michel de Montaigne were written at a crossroads in human history—between Renaissance and Enlightenment, Catholicism and Protestantism, Montaigne argues that to look outward requires we first look within, and that the quest for happiness requires us to accept what we cannot know. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essays of Michel de Montaigne is a classic of French philosophy reimagined for modern readers.
Works of Michael de Montaigne
Author: Michel de Montaigne
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Languages : en
Pages : 588
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