Michel de Montaigne
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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...
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With the goal of describing man with complete frankness and using himself as his most frequent example, Michel de Montaigne first published his "Essays" in 1580. This collection of 107 chapters encompasses a wide variety of subjects, originally inspired by his study of Latin classics, and later by the lives of the leading figures of his time. Michel de Montaigne saw the most basic elements of man as variety and unpredictability, and this idea permeates...
3) Ensayos
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Español
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En esta selección se trata de dar con algunas de las principales "tesis" del autor en el ámbito de la ética y las costumbres, además del testimonio sobre sí mismo, que es lo más llamativo de los Ensayos. No se recogen sus amenas historias extraídas sobre todo de los clásicos y de la historia de Francia, pues hubieran alargado esta antología.
4) Les Essais
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Français
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Les Essais de Michel de Montaigne sont une œuvre majeure de la littérature française et mondiale. Publiés pour la première fois en 1580, ils sont une collection de réflexions, de récits autobiographiques et d'essais philosophiques sur une variété de sujets, allant de la religion à la politique en passant par la nature humaine. Montaigne y explore les thèmes de la vie, de la mort, de la connaissance de soi et de la société, avec une profondeur...
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One of France's great Renaissance thinkers, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) invented the essay as a literary form. This compilation features the best of his brief, highly readable reflections on poetry, philosophy, theology, law, literature, education, and world exploration. Remarkably modern in their views, the essays continue to resonate with readers as their author bemoans his failing memory, criticizes his culture's obsession with celebrity, and...
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Montaigne podría ser uno de los escritores más simpáticos que se hayan conocido. Es conocido por popularizar el ensayo como género literario; su estilo combina anécdotas casuales y autobiográficas con profundos conocimientos intelectuales. Sus ensayos se encuentran entre los más influyentes jamás escritos; se puede reconocer la influencia directa de Montaigne en las grandes figuras literarias de todo el mundo, desde René Descartes a Nietzsche,...
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Michel de Montaigne, one of the foremost writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay, wrote on subjects ranging from friendship to imagination, from language to conscience. This collection includes twenty-two of Montaigne's essays, including "Of Prognostications," "Of the Custom of Wearing Clothes," "Of Pedantry," and "Of Friendship." Throughout Montaigne's writing, he approaches his subject matter with rationality...
8) De l'amitié
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De l'amitié est tiré des Essais de Montaigne, publiés en 1595, à titre posthume. C'est par l'introspection la plus honnête que l'auteur cherche à comprendre l'humanité, par le raisonnement mais aussi par la compréhension intime de ses propres émotions. L'amitié est une rencontre. Quand Montaigne raconte avec bonheur sa relation avec Estienne de La Boétie, le lecteur de son cté expérimente la rencontre avec un auteur, sincère et libre,...
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We all die, sooner or later. We all know it, and we wonder when, where, and how it may happen. and yet we go to extraordinary lengths to put the thought of it out of our minds. We hesitate to bring it up in conversations. Montaigne, who ... essay, addressed this issue head on in "To Study Philosophy is to Learn to Die." It is perhaps his best-known essay, a kind of summation of his philosophy, and considered his most stoic. There are three main themes:...
10) Essays
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Considered the inventor of the essay itself, Michel de Montaigne published Essays (Essais, literally "Attempts") in 1850. Known for his skill at merging serious intellectual debate with personal anecdotes, his vast work collects together some of the most influential essays the world has ever seen, shaping the thoughts Blaise Pascal, René Descartes, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stefan Zweig, Friedrich Nietzsche, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Isaac
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"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." The Essays of Montaigne are a collection of writings from the late 16th century. Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness and honesty. The essays are surprisingly, modern and have, served as foundational texts for much of Western philosophy and culture.
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New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2014
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xlviii, 418 p. ; 21 cm.
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English
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"An NYRB Classics Original 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 that, how much Shakespeare actually read Montaigne remains a matter of uncertainty and debate to this day. That he read...
15) Selected essays
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Pub. for the Classics club by W.J. Black
Pub. Date
[1943]
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xxx pages, 1 leaf, 364 pages : illustrations (including facsimile) ; 20 cm.
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English
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At head of title: Michel de Montaigne.
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Great books of the Western world volume 25
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Encyclopædia Britannica
Pub. Date
c1952
Edition
Founders' ed.
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viii, 543 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Bibliothèque de la Pléiade volume 14
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[Gallimard
Pub. Date
c1962]
Physical Desc
1791 p.
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Français
20) Essais
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Bordas
Pub. Date
c1985
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254 p. : ill., ports., facsims. ; 17 cm.
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Français
