Matthew Sharpe is part of an ARC funded project on modern reinventions of the ancient idea of "philosophy as a way of life", in which Montaigne is a central figure. When Michel de Montaigne retired to ...
Edited by David Lazar and Patrick Madden. Univ. of Georgia, $32.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8203-4815-5 Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) is the acknowledged creator of the modern essay form, yet today he is ...
In honor of the 16th-century French essayist Michel de Montaigne and the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Catherine Danielou, Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences and recipient ...
The ‘Essays’ of Michel de Montaigne first appeared in 1580, in a sloppily typeset printing of a few hundred copies. Later editions would achieve him a modest renown during his lifetime (1533-92), but ...
Michel de Montaigne was a philosopher of the French Renaissance (16th century) whose “Essays” have inspired readers for more than 500 years. His work influenced many important philosophers and writers ...
LIKE MANY people, as he grew older Michel de Montaigne paid close attention to the workings of his body. He began to feel the cold in his bones; his servants brought him clothes at night “to warm my ...
When Michel de Montaigne retired to his family estate in 1572, aged 38, he tells us that he wanted to write his famous Essays as a distraction for his idle mind. He neither wanted nor expected people ...
When I decided to take a gap year last summer, I set out to fill my spare time with writing about the books I have been reading. This was new for me — though I am an English major, I hardly wrote ...
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