Michel De Montaigne

Essays Of Michel De Montaigne (Volume 11)

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Produktbeschreibung

A doorway into the mind of a master thinker, and a doorway into timeless questions about virtue, doubt, and the human condition. These essays speak across the centuries with the clarity of a friend who will not let you dodge ambiguity. Essays Of Michel De Montaigne (Volume 11) gathers Montaigne's enduring reflections in a form that feels both intimate and expansive. The prose-in the quiet, probing cadence of renaissance europe-turns inward with self reflection while turning outward to the world: moral inquiry, social observation, and pointed, humane wisdom. It is an essay collection that rewards patient reading and thoughtful discussion, serving as an academic study resource for literature students and a pleasure for classic philosophy readers alike. In this restored edition, Alpha Editions honours Montaigne's sixteenth century sensibility while rendering it accessible to today's readers. The work remains a benchmark for human nature observations, a touchstone for how a thinker negotiates doubt, and a reminder that curiosity is the engine of growth. Not merely a reprint, but a collector's item and a cultural treasure. For casual readers and serious collectors alike, this volume is a gateway to a revered voice-Rabelais and Montaigne style dialogue with our own era, a bridge from renaissance europe to contemporary life, and a lasting invitation to think more clearly about who we are.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 64
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 108g
• ISBN-13: 9789354944659
• ISBN-10: 9354944655
• Artikelnr.: 62628012

Autorenporträt

Michel de Montaigne (28 February 1533 - 13 September 1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. His massive volume Essais contains some of the most influential essays ever written. During his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than an innovation. In time, however, Montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that began to emerge at that time.