Brilliant, original, funny and moving — a vivid portrait of Montaigne, showing how his ideas gave birth to our modern sense of our inner selves, from Shakespeare's plays to the dilemmas we face today.
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love— such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honourable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy?
This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them 'essays', meaning 'attempts' or 'tries'. Into them he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment— and in search of themselves.
This book, a spirited and singular biography (and the first full life of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years), relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only Latin), youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boétie and with his adopted 'daughter', Marie de Gournay. And as we read, we also meet his readers— who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, 'how to live?'-- From the Hardcover edition.
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粗看起來,濛田是九把刀那種靠勤奮寫作建立知名度的作傢。他自認纔華不如他的朋友 La Boetie,也隻有一本流傳於世的著作:《論說文集》。這本書裏,充滿瞭混亂的描述和不知從何說起的議論,讀者經常會感到受到瞭標題的誤導,讓他們的閱讀更加如陷入五裏雲霧。有價值的觀點如同...
評分粗看起來,濛田是九把刀那種靠勤奮寫作建立知名度的作傢。他自認纔華不如他的朋友 La Boetie,也隻有一本流傳於世的著作:《論說文集》。這本書裏,充滿瞭混亂的描述和不知從何說起的議論,讀者經常會感到受到瞭標題的誤導,讓他們的閱讀更加如陷入五裏雲霧。有價值的觀點如同...
評分粗看起來,濛田是九把刀那種靠勤奮寫作建立知名度的作傢。他自認纔華不如他的朋友 La Boetie,也隻有一本流傳於世的著作:《論說文集》。這本書裏,充滿瞭混亂的描述和不知從何說起的議論,讀者經常會感到受到瞭標題的誤導,讓他們的閱讀更加如陷入五裏雲霧。有價值的觀點如同...
評分粗看起來,濛田是九把刀那種靠勤奮寫作建立知名度的作傢。他自認纔華不如他的朋友 La Boetie,也隻有一本流傳於世的著作:《論說文集》。這本書裏,充滿瞭混亂的描述和不知從何說起的議論,讀者經常會感到受到瞭標題的誤導,讓他們的閱讀更加如陷入五裏雲霧。有價值的觀點如同...
評分粗看起來,濛田是九把刀那種靠勤奮寫作建立知名度的作傢。他自認纔華不如他的朋友 La Boetie,也隻有一本流傳於世的著作:《論說文集》。這本書裏,充滿瞭混亂的描述和不知從何說起的議論,讀者經常會感到受到瞭標題的誤導,讓他們的閱讀更加如陷入五裏雲霧。有價值的觀點如同...
圖書標籤: 濛田 生活 :非虛構:傳記 -2012年讀完 哲學
既是生動的濛田傳記,也是其論說文集的精彩導讀。
評分既是生動的濛田傳記,也是其論說文集的精彩導讀。
評分既是生動的濛田傳記,也是其論說文集的精彩導讀。
評分既是生動的濛田傳記,也是其論說文集的精彩導讀。
評分既是生動的濛田傳記,也是其論說文集的精彩導讀。
How to Live 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載