Description
| Product ID: | 9781782278818 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | What Do I Know? |
| Subtitle: | Essential Essays |
| Authors: | Author: Michel de Montaigne, David Coward |
| Page Count: | 192 |
| Subjects: | Literary essays, Literary essays, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition A fresh new translation of Michel de Montaigne’s most profound, searching essays, with an introduction from Yiyun Li, author of The Book of Goose This gift-worthy collection of 16 essays by “the father of the essay” is a short, accessible introduction to his work, offering a fascinating glimpse inside a great Renaissance mind “I myself am the subject of my book.” So wrote Montaigne in the introductory note to his Essays, the book that marked the birth of the modern essay form. In works of probing intelligence and idiosyncratic observation, Montaigne moved from intimate personal observation to roving theories of the conduct of kings and cannibals, the effects of sorrow and fear, and the fallibility of human memory and judgement. This new selection of Montaigne’s 16 most ingenious essays appears in a lucid new translation by the prize-winning David Coward. What Do I Know? gives the modern reader profound insight into a great Renaissance mind. What Do I Know? is divided into 3 sections and includes: MONTAIGNE ON MONTAIGNE
ON THE PURSUIT OF REASON
ON GOVERNANCE AND GOVERNORS
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| Imprint Name: | Pushkin Press |
| Publisher Name: | Pushkin Press |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2023-10-05 |