The Complete Essays (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

The Complete Essays (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

Michel de Montaigne was one of the most influential figures of the Renaissance, singlehandedly responsible for popularising the essay as a literary form. This Penguin Classics edition of The Complete Essays is translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech. In

Complete Essays of Montaigne (Montaigne Michel Eyquem)(Paperback)

This new translation of Montaigne's immortal Essays received great acclaim when it was first published in The Complete Works of Montaigne in the 1957 edition. The New York Times said, 'It is a matter for rejoicing that we now have available a new translation that offers definite advantages over

The Essays: A Selection (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

A survey of one of the giants of Renaissance thought, The Essays: A Selection collects some of Michel de Montaigne's most startling and original works, translated from the French and edited with an introduction and notes by M.A. Screech in Penguin Classics. To overcome a crisis of melancholy after

Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters (De Montaigne Michel)(Pevná vazba)

Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European

Essays (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

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

On Essays: Montaigne to the Present (Karshan Thomas)(Paperback)

Montaigne called it a ramble; Chesterton the joke of literature; and Hume an ambassador between the worlds of learning and of conversation. But what is an essay, and how did it emerge as a literary form? What are the continuities and contradictions across its history, from Montaigne's 1580 Essais

On Solitude (Montaigne Michel)(Paperback)

Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction (Hamlin William M.)(Paperback)

The French author Michel de Montaigne is widely regarded as the founder and greatest practitioner of the personal essay. A member of the minor aristocracy, he worked as a judicial investigator, served as mayor of Bordeaux, and sought to bring stability to his war-torn country during the latter half

On Friendship (Montaigne Michel de)(Paperback / softback)

Expresses the author's views on relationships. This title contemplates the idea that man is no different from any animal, argues that all cultures should be respected, and helps us to understand the nature of

On Solitude (Montaigne Michel de)(Paperback / softback)

Blending intellectual speculation with anecdote and personal reflection, the Renaissance thinker and writer Montaigne pioneered the modern essay. This selection contains his idiosyncratic writings on subjects as varied as the virtues of solitude, the power of the imagination, the pleasures of

The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories (Tillman Lynne)(Paperback)

The complete art world story/essays of the fictional Madame Realism, collected for the first time.The Complete Madame Realism and Other Stories gathers together Lynne Tillman's groundbreaking fiction/essays on culture and places, monuments, artworks, iconic TV shows, and received ideas, written in

Horseman, Pass By! (Don Michel)(Paperback)

These reflective essays about D on's life and experiences in the west of Ireland describe the colourful and varied personalities that the French novelist has come across since he and his family moved there in the mid 1970s. From his friendship with John McGahern and Ulick O'Connor to Tim, the

Language, Counter-Memory, Practice: Selected Essays and Interviews (Foucault Michel)(Paperback)

Because of their range, brilliance, and singularity, the ideas of the philosopher-critic-historian Michel Foucault have gained extraordinary currency throughout the Western intellectual community. This book offers a selection of seven of Foucault's most important published essays, translated from

Foucault in Iran: Islamic Revolution After the Enlightenment (Ghamari-Tabrizi Behrooz)(Paperback)

Were the thirteen essays Michel Foucault wrote in 1978-1979 endorsing the Iranian Revolution an aberration of his earlier work or an inevitable pitfall of his stance on Enlightenment rationality, as critics have long alleged? Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi argues that the critics are wrong. He declares

The Complete Prophecies of Nostradamus (Nostredame Michel De)(Paperback)

The amazing predictions of the 'Seer of Provence' are collected in this startling book. Learn the strange, cryptic secrets of the mysterious, legendary Michel de Nostredame, who foretold world wars, Napoleon, Hitler, rockets, nuclear power, automobiles, television, the assassination of John F

Pure Immanence: Essays on a Life (Deleuze Gilles)(Paperback)

Essays by Gilles Deleuze on the search for a new empiricism.The essays in this book present a complex theme at the heart of the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, what in his last writing he called simply 'a life.' They capture a problem that runs throughout his work--his long search for a new and

Montaigne: A Life (Desan Philippe)(Paperback)

A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinkerOne of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays,

The Quarry: Essays (Howe Susan)(Paperback)

A powerful selection of Susan Howe's previously uncollected essays, The Quarry moves backward chronologically, from her brand-new 'Vagrancy in the Park' (about Wallace Stevens) through such essential texts as 'The Disappearance Approach,' 'Personal Narrative,' 'Sorting Facts,' 'Frame Structures,'

The Practice of the Wild: Essays (Snyder Gary)(Paperback)

The nine captivatingly meditative essays in The Practice of the Wild display the deep understanding and wide erudition of Gary Snyder in the ways of Buddhist belief, wildness, wildlife, and the world. These essays, first published in 1990, stand as the mature centerpiece of Snyder's work and

The Ribbon at Olympia's Throat (Leiris Michel)(Pevná vazba)

Short fragments and essays that explore how a seemingly irrelevant aesthetic detail may cause the eruption of sublimity within the mundane.That the nude painted by Manet (in a painting so conceptually new that it created a scandal in its day) achieves so much truth through such a minor detail, that

Montaigne (Zweig Stefan)(Paperback)

A brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th century Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance

The Best American Essays 2020 (Aciman Andr)(Paperback)

A collection of the year's best essays selected by Andr Aciman, author of the worldwide bestseller Call Me by Your

Communal Nude: Collected Essays (Gluck Robert)(Paperback)

The collected essays of the cofounder of the New Narrative movement, on theory, identity, poetry, and muses from Kathy Acker to Georges Bataille.I read and wrote to invoke what seemed impossible--relation itself--in order to take part in a world that ceaselessly makes itself up, to 'wake up' to the

The Collected Essays of Virginia Woolf (Woolf Virginia)(Paperback)

A collection of the finest essays written by one of the greatest essay writers in the English