When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? : Montaigne and being in touch with life / Saul Frampton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frampton, Saul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592--Criticism and interpretation.

Montaigne, Michel de.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais.

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

300 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2011]

Summary:

Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, Michel de Montaigne, whose essays went on to have a huge impact on figures as diverse as Shakespeare, Emerson, and Orson Welles, and whose thoughts, even today, offer a guide and unprecedented insight into the simple matter of being alive.

Contents:

Waking to the sound of a spinet

Because it was him, because it was me

To jump or duck at the bang of an arquebus

To philosophize is to learn to die

Que sçais-je?

What do I know?

When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?

To rub and polish our brains with others

The philosopher's stone

The exercises of Venus

The touch of a familiar hand

A dog, a horse, a book , a glass

Of experience.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-286) and index.

ISBN:

9780375424717

0375424717

OCLC:

644663381