Michel De Montaigne

Essays Of Michel De Montaigne (Volume 9)

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Produktbeschreibung

A short, sharp provocation to think again about how we live, learn, and endure. Montaigne's voice-humble, piercing, intimate-speaks across the centuries with a present-tense clarity that rewards patient reading. This volume gathers Montaigne's enduring meditations in a form that feels both intimate and expansive: essays that read as a meditative prose collection, offering human nature insights, scepticism and doubt, and a candid map of education and virtue. It is not mere topical nursing of ideas; it is a personal reflection journey that invites casual readers and classic literature lovers alike to wander through ambiguity, curiosity, and the practical ethics of everyday life. The essays blend philosophy with life, inviting readers to test ideas, question certainty, and find steadiness in self-questioning. Historically significant and richly reshaped for today, this edition honours Montaigne as a cornerstone of renaissance France and sixteenth century Europe. He stands alongside other renaissance essayists and alongside later thinkers such as Francis Bacon, forming a bridge from era to essay as a form. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint, it is a collector's item and a cultural treasure, a recommended research reading list exemplar and a new, durable companion for thoughtful minds.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Seitenzahl: 54
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 3mm
• Gewicht: 95g
• ISBN-13: 9789354944598
• ISBN-10: 9354944590
• Artikelnr.: 62624010

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.