How to Live
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
by Sarah Bakewell
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How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love -- such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual. He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment -- and in search of themselves. Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography. - Publisher.
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sixteenth century France, religious strife, philosophy, Michel de Montaigne, Long Now Manual for Civilization, ancient Greek philosophy, essays, ethics, French Authors, Biography, Filosofer, Franska författare, PhilosophyPeople
Seneca, the Woolfs, Plutarch, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900), Catherine de' Medici, Estienne de La Boétie (1530-1563), Henri III, Henri IV, Marie de Gournay, Pierre and Antoinette EyquemPlaces
France, Paris (France), Rome (Italy), Bordeaux, Chateau de MontaigneTimes
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How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
2010, Other Press
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1590514254 9781590514252
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