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Author : Malcolm Smith
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039185
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Montaigne and Religious Freedom written by Malcolm Smith and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Malcolm C. Smith
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 2600339183
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Montaigne and Religious Freedom : The Dawn of Pluralism written by Malcolm C. Smith and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plusieurs passages des Essais de Montaigne et de son journal de voyage (Allemagne, Suisse Italie) font des commentaires allusifs ou incisifs sur le processus par lequel la France est passée de l'unité religieuse à une version moderne du pluralisme. Outre l'action politique de Montaigne auprès de Henri de Navarre, M. Smith s'est interessé aux vues d'auteurs et législateurs du XVIe, notamment Estienne de la Boëtie.
Author : Philippe Desan
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691183007
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Montaigne written by Philippe Desan and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from his violent times? Philippe Desan overturns this long standing myth by showing that Montaigne was constantly connected to and concerned with realizing his political ambitions—and that the literary and philosophical character of the Essays largely depends on them. Desan shows how Montaigne conceived of each edition of the Essays as an indispensable prerequisite to the next stage of his public career. It was only after his political failure that Montaigne took refuge in literature, and even then it was his political experience that enabled him to find the right tone for his genre. The most comprehensive and authoritative biography of Montaigne yet written, this sweeping narrative offers a fascinating new picture of his life and work.
Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268107831
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)
Download or read book Montaigne written by Pierre Manent and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-08-31 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Montaigne: Life without Law, originally published in French in 2014 and now translated for the first time into English by Paul Seaton, Pierre Manent provides a careful reading of Montaigne’s three-volume work Essays. Although Montaigne’s writings resist easy analysis, Manent finds in them a subtle unity, and demonstrates the philosophical depth of Montaigne’s reflections and the distinctive, even radical, character of his central ideas. To show Montaigne’s unique contribution to modern philosophy, Manent compares his work to other modern thinkers, including Machiavelli, Hobbes, Pascal, and Rousseau. What does human life look like without the imposing presence of the state? asks Manent. In raising this question about Montaigne’s Essays, Manent poses a question of great relevance to our contemporary situation. He argues that Montaigne’s philosophical reflections focused on what he famously called la condition humaine, the human condition. Manent tracks Montaigne’s development of this fundamental concept, focusing especially on his reworking of pagan and Christian understandings of virtue and pleasure, disputation and death. Bringing new form and content together, a new form of thinking and living is presented by Montaigne’s Essays, a new model of a thoughtful life from one of the unsung founders of modernity. Throughout, Manent suggests alternatives and criticisms, some by way of contrasts with other thinkers, some in his own name. This is philosophical engagement at a very high level. In showing the unity of Montaigne’s work, Manent’s study will appeal especially to students and scholars of political theory, the history of modern philosophy, modern literature, and the origins of modernity.
Author : Stefan Zweig
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782271465
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (822 download)
Download or read book Montaigne written by Stefan Zweig and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly. Just as Montaigne sought to remain aloof from the factionalism of his day, so Zweig tried to the last to defend his freedom of thought, and argue for peace and compromise. One of the final works Zweig wrote before his suicide, this is both a brilliantly impassioned portrait of a great mind, and a moving plea for tolerance in a world ruled by cruelty.
Author : David Lewis Schaefer
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Freedom Over Servitude written by David Lewis Schaefer and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-11-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains five articles by prominent scholars of French literature and political philosophy that examine the relation between Montaigne's Essays, one of the classic works of the French philosophical and literary traditions, and the writings attributed by Montaigne to his friend, the French humanist Etienne de La Boétie's. Three contributors to the volume suggest that Montaigne was the real author of the revolutionary tract On Voluntary Servitude, along with the other works he attributed to La Boétie's. Two contributors describe the remarkable mathematical and/or mythological patterns found in both the Essays and the works ascribed to La Boétie's. Several essays articulate the revolutionary political teaching found in the Essays as well as On Voluntary Servitude, challenging the conventional view of Montaigne as a political conservative. And all the contributors challenge the received view that he was an artless or nonchalant writer. The volume also includes new translations of both On Voluntary Servitude and the 29 Sonnets of Etienne de La Boetie that Montaigne included in all editions of the Essays except the final one. An important work for students and scholars of political philosophy, Renaissance history, and French and comparative literature.
Author : Frieda S. Brown
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Religious and Political Conservatism in the Essais of Montaigne written by Frieda S. Brown and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1963 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Essays of Montaigne written by Michel de Montaigne and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Hartle
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268202311
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)
Download or read book What Happened to Civility written by Ann Hartle and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is civility, and why has it disappeared? Ann Hartle analyzes the origins of the modern project and the Essays of Michel de Montaigne to discuss why civility is failing in our own time. In this bold book, Ann Hartle, one of the most important interpreters of sixteenth-century French philosopher Michel de Montaigne, explores the modern notion of civility—the social bond that makes it possible for individuals to live in peace in the political and social structures of the Western world—and asks, why has it disappeared? Concerned with the deepening cultural divisions in our postmodern, post-Christian world, she traces their roots back to the Reformation and Montaigne’s Essays. Montaigne’s philosophical project of drawing on ancient philosophy and Christianity to create a new social bond to reform the mores of his culture is perhaps the first act of self-conscious civility. After tracing Montaigne’s thought, Hartle returns to our modern society and argues that this framing of civility is a human, philosophical invention and that civility fails precisely because it is a human, philosophical invention. She concludes with a defense of the central importance of sacred tradition for civility and the need to protect and maintain that social bond by supporting nonpoliticized, nonideological, free institutions, including and especially universities and churches. What Happened to Civility is written for readers concerned about the deterioration of civility in our public life and the defense of freedom of religion. The book will also interest philosophers who seek a deeper understanding of modernity and its meaning, political scientists interested in the meaning of liberalism and the causes of its failure, and scholars working on Montaigne’s Essays.
Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher : BookRix
ISBN 13 : 3736801548
Total Pages : 2032 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (368 download)
Download or read book The Essays of Montaigne written by Michel de Montaigne and published by BookRix. This book was released on 2019-06-28 with total page 2032 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essays of Michel de Montaigne cover a wide range of topics and explore his thoughts, his life and learning in written form. The essays are widely regarded as the predecessor of the modern essay: a focused treatment of issues, events and concerns past, present and future. Montaigne wrote in a kind of crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve the reader, sometimes appearing to move in a stream-of-thought from topic to topic and at other times employing a structured style which gives more emphasis to the didactic nature of his work. His arguments are often supported with quotations from Ancient Greek, Latin and Italian texts, which he quotes in the original source. 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 the scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller, "the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence". A representative quote is "I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself." He opposed the conquest of the New World, deploring the suffering it brought upon the natives. He is highly skeptical of confessions obtained under torture, pointing out that such confessions can be made up by the suspect just to escape the torture he is subjected to. In the middle of the section normally entitled "Man's Knowledge Cannot Make Him Good," he wrote that his motto was "What do I know?". The essay on Sebond ostensibly defended Christianity. However, Montaigne eloquently employed many references and quotes from classical Greek and Roman, i.e. non-Christian authors, especially the atomist Lucretius. Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom. One of his quotations is "Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out." In education, he favored concrete examples and experience over the teaching of abstract knowledge that is expected to be accepted uncritically. The remarkable modernity of thought apparent in Montaigne's essays, coupled with their sustained popularity, made them arguably the most prominent work in French philosophy until the Enlightenment. Their influence over French education and culture is still strong.
Author : Michel Montaigne
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141959401
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book An Apology for Raymond Sebond written by Michel Montaigne and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-09-28 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of personal melancholy that followed the death of Montaigne's own father in 1568, and explores contemporary Christianity in prose that is witty and frequently damning. As he searches for the true meaning of faith, Montaigne is heavily critical of the arrogant tendency of mankind to create God in its own image, and offers his personal reflections on the true role of man, the need to eschew personal arrogance, and the vital importance of faith if we are to understand our place in the universe. Wise, perceptive and remarkably informed, this is one of the true masterpieces of the essay form.
Author : Dorothea B. Heitsch
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9789004116306
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (163 download)
Download or read book Practising Reform in Montaigne's Essais written by Dorothea B. Heitsch and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2000 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume permits a new approach to Montaigne's essays from the point of view of the art of writing and style. Its particular hermeneutic position, which distinguishes it from other investigations, is that Nietzsche is used as a mediator.
Author : Biancamaria Fontana
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400824516
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Montaigne's Politics written by Biancamaria Fontana and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-20 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure--the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in midlife to write his private, philosophical, and apolitical Essais. But, as Biancamaria Fontana argues in Montaigne's Politics, a novel, vivid account of the political meaning of the Essais in the context of Montaigne's life and times, his retirement from the Bordeaux parliament in 1570 "could be said to have marked the beginning, rather than the end, of his public career." He later served as mayor of Bordeaux and advisor to King Henry of Navarre, and, as Fontana argues, Montaigne's Essais very much reflect his ongoing involvement and preoccupation with contemporary politics--particularly the politics of France's civil wars between Catholics and Protestants. Fontana shows that the Essais, although written as a record of Montaigne's personal experiences, do nothing less than set forth the first major critique of France's ancien régime, anticipating the main themes of Enlightenment writers such as Voltaire and Diderot. Challenging the views that Montaigne was politically aloof or evasive, or that he was a conservative skeptic and supporter of absolute monarchy, Fontana explores many of the central political issues in Montaigne's work--the reform of legal institutions, the prospects of religious toleration, the role of public opinion, and the legitimacy of political regimes.
Author : Frieda S. Brown
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 2600332375
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Religious and political conservatism in the “ Essais ” of Montaigne written by Frieda S. Brown and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1963-01-01 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fondée en 1950 par Eugénie Droz, la collection des Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance a réuni, en soixante-cinq ans, plus de 550 titres. Elle s'est imposée comme la collection la plus importante au monde de sources et d’études sur l'Humanisme (Politien, Ficin, Erasme, Budé...), la Réforme francophone (Lefèvre d'Etaples, Calvin, Farel, Bèze...), la Renaissance (littéraire et artistique, Jérôme Bosch ou Rabelais, Ronsard ou le Primatice...), mais aussi la médecine, les sciences, la philosophie, l'histoire du livre et toutes les formes de savoir et d’activité humaine d’un long XVIe siècle, des environs de 1450 jusqu’à la mort du roi Henri IV, seuil de l'âge classique. Les Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance sont le navire-amiral des éditions Droz.
Author : Malcolm Smith
Publisher : Librairie Droz
ISBN 13 : 9782600039116
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Montaigne and the Roman Censors written by Malcolm Smith and published by Librairie Droz. This book was released on 1981 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Guild
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843843714
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)
Download or read book Unsettling Montaigne written by Elizabeth Guild and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2014 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Striking new readings of Montaigne's works, focussing on such concepts as scepticism and tolerance.
Author : Philippe Desan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190679239
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Montaigne written by Philippe Desan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1580, Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) published a book unique by its title and its content: Essays"R. A literary genre was born. At first sight, the Essays resemble a patchwork of personal reflections, but they engage with questions that animate the human mind, and tend toward a single goal: to live better in the present and to prepare for death. For this reason, Montaigne's thought and writings have been a subject of enduring interest across disciplines. This Handbook brings together essays by prominent scholars that examine Montaigne's literary, philosophical, and political contributions, and assess his legacy and relevance today in a global perspective. The chapters of this Handbook offer a sweeping study of Montaigne across different disciplines and in a global perspective. One section covers the historical Montaigne, situating his thought in his own time and space, notably the Wars of Religion in France. The political, historical and religious context of Montaigne's Essays requires a rigorous presentation to inform the modern reader of the issues and problems that confronted Montaigne and his contemporaries in his own time. In addition to this contextual approach to Montaigne, the Handbook also establishes a connection between Montaigne's writings and issues and problems directly relevant to our modern times, that is to say, our age of global ideology. Montaigne's considerations, or essays, offer a point of departure for the modern reader's own assessments. The Essays analyze what can be broadly defined as human nature, the endless process by which the individual tries to impose opinions upon others through the production of laws, policies or philosophies. Montaigne's motto -- "What do I know?" -- is a simple question yet one of perennial significance. One could argue that reading Montaigne today teaches us that the angle defines the world we see, or, as Montaigne wrote: "What matters is not merely that we see the thing, but how we see it."
