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Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Great Books in Philosophy Ser.
Montaigne writes about vanity, the value of friendship, constancy, idleness, liars, virtue, cowardice, prognostication, cannibals, the greatness of Rome, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die," and a host of other topics. Filled with insights and keen observations that have inspired later writers ...Show more
Essays by Michel de Montaigne
Category: Languages and Reference
Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Michel de Montaigne pioneered the modern essay form. This edition contains all of his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagina ...Show more
Essays: The Philosophy Classic by De Montaigne, Michel
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Essais (Essays), the large collection of short essays by Michel de Montaigne was published in 1580. The essays are a reflection of Montaigne's philosophy, his interests and learning. They describe humans, particularly Montaigne himself, and he expressed his thoughts freely through his essays.His essays ...Show more
Essays of Michel de Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne; Charles Cotton (Translator); William Hazilitt (Editor)
Category: Reference
Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness and honesty ("bonne foi"). He finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features, which resonates to the Renaissance thought about the fragility of humans. According to ...Show more
Great Ideas: On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
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How We Weep and Laugh at the Same Thing : Little Black Classic by Michel de Montaigne
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Little Black Classics 29
'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.' A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics cel ...Show more
Michel De Montaigne: The Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel De Montaigne
Category: Fiction | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533--92) was the first to use the term "essay" to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise and engaging writings, his ...Show more
Montaigne: Selected Essays: With La Boetie's Discourse on Voluntary Servitude by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
Category: Culture
A superb achievement, one that successfully brings together in accessible form the work of two major writers of Renaissance France. This is now the default version of Montaigne in English. --Timothy Hampton, Professor of French and Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
On Friendship by Michel de Montaigne
Category: History | Series: Penguin Great Ideas 6
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you t ...Show more
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
Category: Languages and Reference
Shakespeare, Nietzsche once wrote, was Montaigne's best reader. It is a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between the ever-changing record of the mutable self constituted by Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. For all ...Show more
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne, de Montaigne Michel
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Classics Ser.
In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and thinking. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by ideas he found in the books of his library and his own experience. He discussed subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and ...Show more