Montaigne's Essais
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Masterworks in the Western Tradition
ISBN-10
0820463167
ISBN-13
9780820463162
Publisher
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint
Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 19th, 2004
Print length
125 Pages
Weight
196 grams
Dimensions
15.40 x 22.90 x 0.90 cms
Product Classification:
Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Social & political philosophy
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This book provides an extensive and textual analysis of Montaigne’s essays – both the relevant Villey French texts as well as the Frame English translations. It identifies and illustrates a unifying, recurring theme in the ostensibly diverse and often apparently contradictory essays of the sixteenth-century writer – the attempt at psychic harmony through «temporal solipsism», or living insofar as possible in the present moment by doing things for their own sake rather than for extrinsic purposes. Placing Montaigne in historical context, Montaigne’s Essais argues that he implicitly provides his own synthesis of pagan and Christian ideas, with no fewer tensions than the Aquinian synthesis. A concluding bibliographic essay addresses some issues of scholarly controversy, primarily from the perspectives of philosophy and political theory.
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