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How to Live

Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

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How to get along 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? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than 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

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How to Live, Sarah Bakewell

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2011
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Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavateľ
Other Press
Rok vydania
2011
Väzba
mäkká
Počet strán
416
ISBN10
1590514831
ISBN13
9781590514832
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Hodnotenie
4,2 z 5
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How to get along 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? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than 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