Montaigne / Hugo Friedrich ; edited and with an introduction by Philippe Desan ; translated [from the German] by Dawn Eng.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Friedrich, Hugo, 1904-1978.

Standardized Title:

Montaigne. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.

Montaigne, Michel de.

French essays--History and criticism.

French essays.

Physical Description:

xxxi, 433 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1991]

Summary:

The Essays of Michel de Montaigne, written between 1572 and 1592, are cherished by readers and considered literary classics by scholars. Hugo Friedrich's masterful study of Montaigne's life and work, first published in Germany in 1949 and widely acclaimed by German and French readers, is now available to an English-speaking audience.

Friedrich considers the Montaigne of the Essays one of the first "moralists" in the French sense of the term, recording with anthropological fervor and in fresh, informal language the full spectrum of human thought and commerce as he saw it. Philippe Desan, who introduces this fine translation, commends Friedrich's holistic interpretation of Montaigne's unstructured creation, so often reduced by critics to its smallest fragments. Friedrich, says Desan, evokes "an epoch, distilled from accounts given by the best witness of the Renaissance."

Contents:

Intellectual Inheritance and Education 31

Abased Man 93

Affirmed Man 143

The Self 207

Montaigne and Death 258

Montaigne's Wisdom 301

Montaigne's Literary Consciousness and the Form of the Essais 326.

Notes:

Translation of: Montaigne.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0520065816

0520072537

OCLC:

22421715