Montaigne: 135 books

Book cover of The Essays of Montaigne, Complete
by Michel de Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

The Essays of Montaigne, Complete by Michel de Montaigne.
Book cover of Ensayos II
by Michel de Montaigne
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 28, 2014

Montaigne inicia la redacción de esta obra que le ocupará hasta la fecha de su muerte en 1592. Dos años antes había vendido su puesto como Consejero del Parlamanto de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo en el Périgord. No será la redacción de los Ensayos...
Book cover of Ensayos III
by Michel de Montaigne
Language: Spanish
Release Date: December 28, 2014

Montaigne inicia la redacción de esta obra que le ocupará hasta la fecha de su muerte en 1592. Dos años antes había vendido su puesto como Consejero del Parlamanto de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo en el Périgord. No será la redacción de los Ensayos...
Book cover of Les Essais
by Michel de MONTAIGNE, Michel ONFRAY
Language: French
Release Date: March 14, 2019

À bien des égards, Les Essais constituent l'oeuvre fondatrice des lettres françaises et de la pensée occidentale moderne, dont Montaigne est l'un des pères. Or rares sont ceux qui, en France, peuvent vraiment lire Montaigne, hormis les spécialistes, à cause des difficultés du moyen français....
Book cover of The Essays of Montaigne: Book the Second
by Michel De Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2015

Such as make it their business to oversee human actions, do not find themselves in anything so much perplexed as to reconcile them and bring them into the world's eye with the same lustre and reputation; for they commonly so strangely contradict one another that it seems impossible they should proceed...
Book cover of An Apology for Raymond Sebond
by Michel Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006

An Apology for Raymond Sebond is widely regarded as the greatest of Montaigne's essays: a supremely eloquent expression of Christian scepticism. An empassioned defence of Sebond's fifteenth-century treatise on natural theology, it was inspired by the deep crisis of personal melancholy that followed...
Book cover of Sopravvivi all'amore
by Michel de Montaigne
Language: Italian
Release Date: April 5, 2018

Leggere Montaigne è come vedersi riflessi in uno specchio attraverso le parole di un amico. E a un dialogo con un amico saggio e stravagante assomiglia la lettura di questa selezione dei Saggi. In Sopravvivi all’amore lo sguardo è rivolto all’intimità del soggetto, caratterizzato da sentimenti...
Book cover of Harvard Classics Volume 32

Harvard Classics Volume 32

Literary And Philosophical Essays

by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, Michel, de Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Contents: 1. Essays, by Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 2. Montaigne and What is a Classic?, by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve 3. The Poetry of the Celtic Races, by Ernest Renan 4. The Education of the Human Race, by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 5. Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man, by Friedrich von...
Book cover of The Essays of Montaigne: Book the Third
by Michel De Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2015

No man is free from speaking foolish things; but the worst on't is, when a man labours to play the fool: "Nae iste magno conatu magnas nugas dixerit." ["Truly he, with a great effort will shortly say a mighty trifle."—-Terence, Heaut., act iii., s. 4.] This does not concern...
Book cover of Ensayos (Los mejores clásicos)
by Michel de Montaigne
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 10, 2016

Los mejores libros jamás escritos. «No enseño ni adoctrino, lo que hago es relatar.» En 1571, tras haber sufrido un accidente montando a caballo, Michel de Montaigne abandonó su posición como magistrado de Burdeos para retirarse a su castillo y empezar a escribir. Este es el inicio,...
Book cover of The Essays of Montaigne
by Michel de Montaigne
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2017

Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness and honesty ("bonne foi"). He finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features, which resonates to the Renaissance thought about the fragility of humans....
Book cover of Des idées que l'on se fait sur soi

Des idées que l'on se fait sur soi

(« De la présomption », Essais, II, 17)

by Michel Montaigne (Eyquem de)
Language: French
Release Date: November 5, 2014

Quand on se prend soi-même pour « matière » de son livre – comme Montaigne dans les Essais –, comment ne pas verser dans l’autocélébration ? Il faut se garder de la complaisance et de l’autosatisfaction qui entravent la connaissance de soi. L’Essai intitulé De la présomption traite...
Book cover of Dans la combi de Thomas Pesquet
by Marion Montaigne, Marion Montaigne
Language: French
Release Date: November 24, 2017

Le 2 juin dernier, le Français Thomas Pesquet, 38 ans, astronaute, rentrait sur Terre après avoir passé 6 mois dans la Station spatiale internationale. La réalisation d'un rêve d'enfant pour ce type hors-norme qui après avoir été sélectionné parmi 8413 candidats, suivit une formation intense...
Book cover of Scopri il mondo
by Michel de Montaigne
Language: Italian
Release Date: January 24, 2019

Com’è possibile aprirsi al mondo senza perdere se stessi e, anzi, affermarsi in questa apertura? È questa la domanda che fa da sfondo alla selezione dei Saggi di Montaigne pubblicati in Scopri il mondo. Per rispondere, il filosofo lega l’idea di un sapere autonomo alla descrizione di alcune...
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