Montaigne and the Quality of Mercy : : Ethical and Political Themes in the Essais / / David Quint.
In a fresh reading of Montaigne's Essais, David Quint portrays the great Renaissance writer as both a literary man and a deeply engaged political thinker concerned with the ethical basis of society and civil discourse. From the first essay, Montaigne places the reader in a world of violent poli...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton Legacy Lib. eBook Package 1980-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014] ©1998 |
| Year of Publication: | 2014 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE. Clemency and Revenge: The First Essay and Its Place in Montaigne's Book
- CHAPTER TWO. Cruelty and Noblesse: "De la cruaute" and "Couardise mere de la cruaute"
- CHAPTER THREE. The Culture That Cannot Pardon: "Des cannibales" in the Larger Essais
- CHAPTER FOUR. An Ethics of Yielding: "De Part de conferer" and "De la phisionomie"
- Notes
- Index
- ABOUT THE AUTHOR