100 citat från Michel de Montaigne: Samling 100 Citat

Written by Michel de Montaigne

Narrated by Johannes Johnström

Montaigne skulle aldrig någonsin känt en av de mest sympatiska författare. Han är känd för att popularisera uppsats som en litterär genre; hans stil kombinerar tillfälliga anekdoter och självbiografi med djupa intellektuella insikter. Essäer är bland de mest inflytelserika någonsin skrivits; kan man direkt påverka på Montaigne stora litterära figurer att erkänna världen, från Descartes till Nietzsche, Isaac Asimov, och kanske William Shakespeare. Vi har för du valde 100 av hans mest fascinerande och underhållande insightul offerter så direkt med en av de största hjärnorna som någonsin levt kunde möta.

• Language: Svenska
• Publisher: Astorg Sweeden
• Release date: Jan 1, 2020
• ISBN: 9782821157941

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was a French philosopher, essayist, and statesman. Born in Aquitaine at the Château de Montaigne, he was raised in a wealthy and powerful family with Spanish, Portuguese, and Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Educated by tutors from his father’s humanist circle, he went on to study under Latin scholar George Buchanan at the College of Guienne in Bordeaux. After completing a law degree, he was appointed counselor of the Parlement in Bordeaux and from 1561 to 1563 served as a courtier to Charles IX. After retiring from public life in 1871, he began working on his celebrated Essais (1580). Believed to be inspired by the loss of his dear friend Étienne de La Boétie, a prominent humanist and poet of the French Renaissance, the Essais contain Montaigne’s reflections on literature, the classics, philosophy, human nature, and selfhood. Considered a landmark work of pre-Enlightenment French philosophy, Montaigne’s magnum opus both popularized the essay as a literary form and influenced a wide range of Western thinkers, including William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.