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Montaigne & Melancholy

Author : Michael Andrew Screech
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742508637
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Montaigne & Melancholy written by Michael Andrew Screech and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Montaigne (1533-1592), the personification of philosophical calm, had to struggle to become the wise Renaissance humanist we know. His balanced temperament, sanguine and melancholic, promised genius but threatened madness. When he started his Essays, Montaigne was upset by an attack of melancholy humor: He became temperamental and unbalanced. Writing about himself restored the balance but broke an age-old taboo--happily so, for he discovered profound truths about himself and about our human condition. His charm and humor have made his writings widely enjoyed and admired.

Shakespeare's Montaigne

Author : Michel de Montaigne
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590177347
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Shakespeare's Montaigne written by Michel de Montaigne and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An NYRB Classics Original Shakespeare, Nietzsche wrote, was Montaigne’s best reader—a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between Montaigne’s ever-changing record of the self and Shakespeare’s kaleidoscopic register of human character. And there is no doubt that Shakespeare read Montaigne—though how extensively remains a matter of debate—and that the translation he read him in was that of John Florio, a fascinating polymath, man-about-town, and dazzlingly inventive writer himself. Florio’s Montaigne is in fact one of the masterpieces of English prose, with a stylistic range and felicity and passages of deep lingering music that make it comparable to Sir Robert Burton’s Anatomy of Melancholy and the works of Sir Thomas Browne. This new edition of this seminal work, edited by Stephen Greenblatt and Peter G. Platt, features an adroitly modernized text, an essay in which Greenblatt discusses both the resemblances and real tensions between Montaigne’s and Shakespeare’s visions of the world, and Platt’s introduction to the life and times of the extraordinary Florio. Altogether, this book provides a remarkable new experience of not just two but three great writers who ushered in the modern world.

How to Live

Author : Sarah Bakewell
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590514262
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)

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Download or read book How to Live written by Sarah Bakewell and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Monatigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them “essays,” meaning “attempts” or “tries.” Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog’s ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment—and in search of themselves. This book, a spirited and singular biography, relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing, youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Étienne de La Boétie and with his adopted “daughter,” Marie de Gournay. And we also meet his readers—who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, “how to live?”

Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity

Author : Harvie Ferguson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134817282
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (348 download)

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Download or read book Melancholy and the Critique of Modernity written by Harvie Ferguson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-10 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The connections between the emergence of modern society and the experience of melancholy are explored through a comprehensive re-examination of Soren Kierkegaard's rich and insightful writings.

Michel de Montaigne

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Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9781001405162
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Michel de Montaigne written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1968 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Essaying Montaigne

Author : John O'Neill
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853239963
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Essaying Montaigne written by John O'Neill and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John O'Neill reads Montaigne's 'Essays' from the principle of friendship as a communicative and pedagogical practice in society, literature and politics. He shows how subjectivity is shaken by its internal weakness once we move inside the structure of domination in politics, gender and race.

The Essays

Author : Michel Montaigne
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 024141234X
Total Pages : 451 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (414 download)

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Download or read book The Essays written by Michel Montaigne and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2019-04-25 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. On Some Lines of Virgil opens out into a frank discussion of sexuality and makes a revolutionary case for the equality of the sexes. In On Experience he superbly propounds his thoughts on the right way to live, while other essays touch on issues of an age struggling with religious and intellectual strife, with France torn apart by civil war. These diverse subjects are united by Montaigne's distinctive voice - that of a tolerant man, sceptical, humane, often humorous and utterly honest in his pursuit of the truth.

Robert Burton on the Melancholic Plague

Author : Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho
Publisher : Ethics International Press
ISBN 13 : 1804417890
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Robert Burton on the Melancholic Plague written by Cláudio Alexandre S. Carvalho and published by Ethics International Press. This book was released on 2024-09-26 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an innovative perspective on the melancholic character of English divine, writer and academic Robert Burton (1577–1640) and how it shaped his confrontations with political and academic powers. Delving on his historical context, personal struggles and earlier literary pieces, this enquiry provides a new reading of The Anatomy of Melancholy, revealing its deeper purposes and how these prefigure the tensions at the heart of modern discourses—therapeutic, political, and economic. Along with Burton’s observations on melancholy, the book highlights the emergence of "melancholic observation", a new kind of reflexive and critical stance on the pressing issues of his time This is well expressed in Burton's presentation of 'melancholizing' as a creative activity, which uses the existential stance as the grounding for utopian imagination and projects performative ways to expose the limitations of political and academic powers. Beyond its analysis of Burton's melancholic character, the book provides a wealth of knowledge that enhances the study and teaching of various subjects. It illuminates the transformation of Renaissance medicine and its embeddedness within religious, academic, and literary discourses and practices, offers insights into historical figures associated with the concept of melancholy, explores shifts in philosophical readership during the era, and uncovers the precursors of psychotherapy. By connecting these diverse subjects, it provides an interdisciplinary approach that enriches our understanding of the cultural and intellectual landscape of the time. Robert Burton on the Melancholic Plague invites readers on an intellectual journey through the profound complexities of Robert Burton's masterpiece, The Anatomy of Melancholy. By intertwining existential, socio-political, geographic, economic, and artistic dimensions of Burton’s work, it opens new avenues of exploration, gaining valuable insights into the motivation and depth of his work.

Pierre de L'Estoile and his World in the Wars of Religion

Author : Tom Hamilton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192520482
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)

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Download or read book Pierre de L'Estoile and his World in the Wars of Religion written by Tom Hamilton and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Wars of Religion embroiled France in decades of faction, violence, and peacemaking in the late sixteenth century. This study offers a new history of these Wars of Religion from the perspective of the period's great diarist and collector, Pierre de L'Estoile (1546-1611), telling the story of his life and times. When historians interpret these events they inevitably depend on sources of information gathered by contemporaries, none more valuable than the diaries and collection of Pierre de L'Estoile (1546-1611), who lived through the civil wars in Paris and shaped how they have been remembered ever since. Taking him out of the footnotes, and demonstrating his significance in the culture of the late Renaissance, this is the first life of L'Estoile in any language. It examines how he negotiated and commemorated the conflicts that divided France as he assembled an extraordinary collection of the relics of the troubles, a collection that he called 'the storehouse of my curiosities'. The story of his life and times is the history of the civil wars in the making. Focusing on a crucial individual for understanding Reformation Europe, this study challenges historians' assumptions about the widespread impact of confessional conflict in the sixteenth century. L'Estoile's prudent, non-confessional responses to the events he lived through and recorded were common among his milieu of Gallican Catholics. His life-writing and engagement with contemporary news, books, and pictures reveals how individuals used different genres and media to destabilise rather than fix confessional identities. Bringing together the great variety of topics in society and culture that attracted L'Estoile's curiosity, this volume rethinks his world in the Wars of Religion.

Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne

Author : Zahi Zalloua
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 029580047X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Montaigne after Theory, Theory after Montaigne written by Zahi Zalloua and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essayist Michel de Montaigne is one of the most accessible and widely read authors in world literature. His skepticism and relativism, and the personal quality of his writing, make him a perennial favorite among readers today. Montaigne After Theory / Theory After Montaigne pursues the idea that theory has altered the scholarly understanding of Montaigne, while Montaigne's ideas have simultaneously challenged the authority of the various interpretive doxa collectively known as "theory." Montaigne's life and writings have drawn myriad interpretations. While some scholars of his work focus on the content of the writings to define the man, others stress his playful use of language. Montaigne's complex and multifaceted works provide fertile ground for exploring themes of wide-ranging significance within the field of literary theory, including the relationship between biography and theory; the critique of modernism; a critical history of the confessional mode of writing; sexuality and gender; and the theory of practice. The essays in this collection move beyond the current stalemate in Montaigne criticism by revisiting questions about the role of theory in literary studies and by opening up a dialogue on the validity and limitations, or use and abuse, of theory in Montaigne studies.

Unsettling Montaigne

Author : Elizabeth Guild
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843843714
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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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.

The Art of Living

Author : Alexander Nehamas
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520224906
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Living written by Alexander Nehamas and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2000-03 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this wide-ranging, brilliantly written account, Nehamas provides an incisive reevaluation of Socrates' place in the Western philosophical tradition and shows the importance of Socrates for Montaigne, Nietzsche, and Foucault.

Shakespearean Melancholy

Author : J.F. Bernard
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474417345
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Shakespearean Melancholy written by J.F. Bernard and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of the bestselling textbook for Scottish teacher training courses.

Textures of Renaissance Knowledge

Author : Philippa Berry
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719064654
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (646 download)

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Download or read book Textures of Renaissance Knowledge written by Philippa Berry and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Michel de Montaigne

Author : Ann Hartle
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 113944204X
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Michel de Montaigne written by Ann Hartle and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-03-27 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michel de Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but has never been thought of as a philosophical original. This book treats Montaigne as a serious thinker in his own right, taking as its point of departure Montaigne's description of himself as 'an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher'. Whereas previous commentators have treated Montaigne's Essays as embodying a scepticism harking back to classical sources, Ann Hartle offers an account that reveals Montaigne's thought to be dialectical, transforming sceptical doubt into wonder at the most familiar aspects of life. This major reassessment of a much admired but also much underestimated thinker will interest a wide range of historians of philosophy as well as scholars in comparative literature, French studies and the history of ideas.

Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England

Author : Mary Ann Lund
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139484109
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Melancholy, Medicine and Religion in Early Modern England written by Mary Ann Lund and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-07 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anatomy of Melancholy, first published in 1621, is one of the greatest works of early modern English prose writing, yet it has received little substantial literary criticism in recent years. This study situates Robert Burton's complex work within three related contexts: religious, medical and literary/rhetorical. Analysing Burton's claim that his text should have curative effects on his melancholic readership, it examines the authorial construction of the reading process in the context of other early modern writing, both canonical and non-canonical, providing a new approach towards the emerging field of the history of reading. Lund responds to Burton's assertion that melancholy is an affliction of body and soul which requires both a spiritual and a corporal cure, exploring the theological complexion of Burton's writing in relation to English religious discourse of the early seventeenth century, and the status of his work as a medical text.

Montaigne in Motion

Author : Jean Starobinski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226771318
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Montaigne in Motion written by Jean Starobinski and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Educated in the humanities and trained in psychiatry, Jean Starobinski is a central figure in the Geneva School of criticism. For twenty-five years his work has had considerable influence on postmodern European critics (notably Derrida), scholars of French literature, and intellectual historians. Montaigne in Motion is his subtly conceived and elegantly written study of the Essais of Montaigne, whose deceptively plainspoken meditations have entranced readers and stimulated philosophers since their first publication in 1580 and 1595. Starobinski here offers a decidedly postmodern reading of Montaigne. In chapters dealing with the themes of public and private life, friendship, death, the body, and love, Starobinski interprets Montaigne's writings as a constant "working through" that leads Montaigne from a situation of unreasoned dependence to a revolt affirming his independence and self-sufficiency, and finally toward an acceptance and mastery of necessary relations. Placing this ternary movement at the very heart of the Montaignian enterprise, Starobinski reveals much that will remind us that Montaigne's thought is as apropos to our time as it was to his own.