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Bezig met laden... Essaysdoor Michel de Montaigne
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. I read a couple of the selection, the only one that I really liked or understood was 'On Friendship.' He makes some great observations on personal friendship, as opposed to romantic. I really wanted to like him, but he just wanders here and there in most essays. I did like the quotes from Greek and Roman authors though. He is obviously highly educated. This honestly did not hold my interest. The essay on education just kept going on and on with digressions and after a while I honestly had no idea where the author was going with it or what the point was. I fail to see the appeal. This is one of those classics I can say I looked over, but that is about it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Is opgenomen inThe Complete Works door Michel de Montaigne (indirect) Essays of Montaigne & Handbook (3 Volume Set) door Michel de Montaigne (indirect) Oeuvres complètes door Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (indirect)
Reflections by the creator of the essay form display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die," and "On Experience." Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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In this room Montaigne produced three significantly different editions of his endlessly growing essays. By his death in 1592 he had scrawled in the margins of his copy of the most recent edition a significant set of further revisions, which were printed in a modified form in 1595. Montaigne wrote on a wide range of topics -- education, cannibals, drunkenness, war-horses, repentance, thumbs -- and he wrote in a highly readable, thoroughly skeptical way. The roof-beam carvings of his "solarium" convey his general frame of mind and include sayings like these: "The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. I establish nothing. I do not understand. I halt. I examine. Breath fills a goatskin as opinion fills an hollow head. Not more this than that -- why this and not that? Have you seen a man that believes himself wise? Hope that he is a fool. Man, a vase of clay. I am Human, let nothing human be foreign to me."
The essays that he wrote defined the form of his thought while providing a window into both his mind and his life. Through his essays he has influenced writers and thinkers in every place and century since. One of my favorite examples of those he influenced is the self-taught working-man's philosopher Eric Hoffer who commented on the influence of Montaigne in his life. When on a gold-digging trip to the Sierras he took along a copy of Montaigne's essays. "We were snowed in and I read it straight through three times. I quoted it all the time. I'll bet there are still a dozen hobos in the San Joaquin Valley who can quote Montaigne." Montaigne's collected essays are worth returning to again and again to spur one's own thoughts about living and dying. I have read and enjoyed these essays over most of my adult life. With them I would also recommend those of Francis Bacon, Emerson, and Orwell, among others. ( )