When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With Me?: Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life - Brossura

Frampton, Saul

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0571234585 ISBN 13: 9780571234585

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2012

Riassunto

In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his château to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his father, his brother, and most recently his first-born child.

But finding his mind agitated rather than settled by this idleness, Montaigne began to write, giving birth to the Essays - short prose explorations of an amazing variety of topics. And gradually, over the course of his writing Montaigne began to turn his back upon his stoical pessimism, and engage in a new philosophy of life, in which living is to be embraced in all its sensory, exuberant vitality - the smell of his doublet, the pleasures of friendship, the intelligence of his cat and the flavour of his wine.

Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, whose work went on to have a huge impact on Shakespeare, and whose writings offer a user's guide to existence even to the present day.

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Recensione

"Excellent . . . Montaigne celebrates life in all its glorious messiness, while reminding us that nothing matters more than human connectedness and kindness to people and animals. An endlessly digressive writer, Montaigne is as much raconteur as moralist, and his book offers some of the best after-dinner conversation in the world . . . You can never be sure what this French humanist will say next . . . Frampton approaches Montaigne from unexpected tangents . . . Where [he] excels is in his sharply intelligent and sharply phrased insights . . . [An] elegant work."
--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

'Passionately written and bursting with anecdotes, the book does an excellent job of bringing its subject and his historical context to life.' --Sunday Times

'A classy, astute and readable biography.' --Evening Standard

Descrizione del libro

A funny, warm and accessible work of popular philosophy based on the works of a great Renaissance writer

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0571234585
• ISBN 13: 9780571234585
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile