Michel de Montaigne
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne ( ; ; 28 February 1533 – 13 September 1592), commonly known as Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous Western writers; his massive volume ''Essais'' contains some of the most influential essays ever written.During his lifetime, Montaigne was admired more as a statesman than as an author. The tendency in his essays to digress into anecdotes and personal ruminations was seen as detrimental to proper style rather than as an innovation, and his declaration that "I am myself the matter of my book" was viewed by his contemporaries as self-indulgent. In time, however, Montaigne came to be recognized as embodying, perhaps better than any other author of his time, the spirit of freely entertaining doubt that began to emerge at that time. He is most famously known for his skeptical remark, ''''Que sçay-je''?" ("What do I know?", in Middle French; now rendered as "''Que sais-je?''" in modern French). Provided by Wikipedia
Showing 1 - 20 results of 86 for search 'Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592', query time: 0.18s
Refine Results
-
1by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1987Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
2by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1924Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
3by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1962Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
4by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1894Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
5by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1902Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
6by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1892Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
7by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1904Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
8by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1928Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
9by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1957Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
10by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1958Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
11by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1946Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
12by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1951Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
13by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1910Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
14by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1946Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
15by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1942Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
16by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1936Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
17by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1943Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
18by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1958Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
19by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1935Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
20by Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592
Published 1970Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading...
Search Tools:
RSS Feed
–
Email Search
Related Subjects
Description and travel
French essays
Essays
Philosophy
American essays
Bibliography
Books and reading
Civilization
Comparative literature
Concordances
Early printed books
English and French
English essays
French and English
French literature
Influence
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Continental European
LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French
LITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare
Latin language
MONTAIGNE
Study and teaching
Surrealism