Michel de Montaigne: Essays

Literature & Fiction

Michel, De_montaigne

Essays & Correspondence

Penguin Classics

Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic and timeless writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of reading, the importance of sleep and why we sometimes laugh and cry at the same things. 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 the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

Great Ideas On Solitude (Penguin Great Ideas)

Penguin Uk

Essais Choisis de Montaigne (Classic Reprint)

Forgotten Books

Montaigne: The Essays

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Montaigne's Essays in Three Books: With Notes and Quotations. and an Account of the Author's Life. With a Short Character of the Author and Translator

HardPress Publishing

Essais

Après avoir goûté les plaisirs de la Cour, voyagé longuement à travers l''Europe, assumé la charge de premier magistrat de la ville de Bordeaux, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-1592) se retire sur ses terres. Ayant pris la mesure des hommes et des événements, il entreprend alors de rédiger les Essais. « C''est moy que je peins... je suis moy-mesmes la matière de mon livre. »« D''où vient que les Essais soient le livre qui, par excellence, ne vieillit pas, ne saurait vieillir ? Lorsque Stefan Zweig, en exil à Petropolis au Brésil, est dans le désespoir, la déréliction extrêmes, le dernier penseur auquel il demande une aide, qu''il lit et commente, est Montaigne. Pourquoi Montaigne et non Descartes, Kant ou Leibniz ?... Le vrai avantage de Montaigne est qu ''il a touché juste. Ce qu''il dit de l''homme est exactement ce que l''homme peut dire de lui-même : que la condition humaine est condition d''ignorance... mais surtout qu''elle est d''abord et avant tout acceptation de soi-même, tel que la nature nous a fait, car "de nos maladies, la plus sauvage c''est mespriser nostre estre". » Marcel Conche in PréfaceCette nouvelle édition des Essais en un seul volume, dans la collection Quadrige, reprend la célèbre édition de Pierre Villey, revue par V.L. Saulnier, édition conforme au texte de l''exemplaire de Bordeaux, corrigé de la main même de Montaigne en vue d''une sixième édition. Partant de l''exemplaire de Bordeaux, Pierre Villey a également tenu compte des ajouts apportés sur l''édition de 1595 et augmenté le texte de notes et explication sur les termes et expressions de l''époque, d''une chronologie sur la vie et l''œuvre, d''un appendice sur l''influence des Essais, d''un index et de la liste des inscriptions portées sur les murs de la « librairie ».

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Athlone Press

In laying the literary groundwork for the development of the essay, French writer and thinker Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) presented to the world a complete self-portrait — physical, emotional, and intellectual — that was also a mirror in which humanity as a whole found itself reflected. His early essays contained strong elements of stoicism and skepticism, while later efforts indicate a greater balance and an acceptance of nature, with an unflinching openness to new ideas and a willingness to examine impartially the foundations of accepted customs and values. Now readers can sample the vigor and penetration of Montaigne's thought in this selection of eight of his best essays: "Of Friendship," "Of Books," "Of Cruelty," "Of Repentance," "Of Three Commerces," "Of Solitude," "Of the Inequality Amongst Us," and "That It Is Folly to Measure Truth and Error by Our Own Capacity." This edition uses the classic Charles Cotton translation.

Selected Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)

Dover Publications

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 attempts to pursue a more spiritual life. Abounding in aphorisms and anecdotes, enlivened by wordplay and a delightful folksiness, Montaigne's writings constitute a celebration of literacy, friendship, and joie de vivre.

Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)

Montaigne: Selected Essays

Manchester University Press

In Defense of Raymond Sebond

Frederick Ungar Publishing Co.

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