Montaigne : : A Life / / Philippe Desan.
One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau, turning his back on the world, and...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue
- Introduction
- Part One. Ambitions
- Chapter 1. The Eyquems' Social Ascension
- Chapter 2. A First Career as a Magistrate (1556-1570)
- Chapter 3. La Boétie and Montaigne: Discourse on Servitude and Essay of Allegiance
- Chapter 4. "Witness My Cannibals": The Encounter with the Indians of the New World
- Chapter 5. The Making of a Gentleman (1570-1580)
- Chapter 6. The Essais of 1580: Moral, Political, and Military Discourses
- Part Two. Practices
- Chapter 7. The Call of Rome, or How Montaigne Never Became an Ambassador (1580-1581)
- Chapter 8. "Messieurs of Bordeaux Elected Me Mayor of Their City" (1581-1585)
- Chapter 9. "Benignity of the Great" and "Public Ruin" (1585-1588)
- Chapter 10. The Marginalization of Montaigne (1588-1592)
- Part Three. Post Mortem
- Chapter 11. Montaigne's Political Posterity
- Epilogue
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Translations Cited
- Index