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...Frédéric Tinguely Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Frederic Tinguely MONTAIGNE ET LES CURIOSITES DE L'EGLISE ROMAINE L ae grand tour europeen que Montaigne effectue entre juin 1580 et novembre 1581 obeit comme on sait des motivations multiples. II semble qu'il y ait...

...Paul J. Smith Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 Paul ]. Smith MONTAIGNE, JUSTE LIPSE ET L'ART DU VOYAGE L ae chapitre "De la vanite" des Essais (III, 9) de Montaigne a ete considere juste titre comme "l'un des exemples les plus frappants de ce desordre au moyen duquel...

... review). Hamlin tends to emphasize what he calls “Montaigne’s devotional identity” (84) as a limit to his skepticism, and he goes to what may seem unseemly lengths to verify the genuineness of Montaigne’s religious faith, which results in a more pious essayist than may suit some of us. Yet it’s hard...

...Eric MacPhail Eric MacPhail PRAISING THE PAST: NOVELTY AND NOSTALGIA IN MACHIAVELLI, CASTIGLIONE, AND MONTAIGNE O ne of the commonplaces that the Renaissance inherited from antiquity was the idea, usually formulated as a complaint, that humans have a natural tendency to praise the past and blame...

...Deborah N. Losse Deborah N. Losse A STORIED LIFE AND A LIVED STORY: WRITING ONESELF IN MONTAIGNE'S ESSAIS W hen Montaigne recasts a story borrowed from antiquity or from medieval sources, he reshapes the anecdote to include many of the distinguishing characteristics of contemporary brief narrative...

...David L. Sedley Copyright © 2017 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 2017 David L. Sedley INFINITY AND MECHANICAL ARTS IN MONTAIGNE S AND BACON S ESSAYS Aside from their chronological proximity and common title, Michel de Montaigne s Essais and Francis Bacon s...

...Kathleen Bachynski Kathleen Bachynski "LE VAIN BASTIMENT": HUMAN SYSTEMS AND PHILOSOPHY IN MONTAIGNE'S APOLOGIE DE RAIMOND SEBOND M ichel de Montaigne as a philosopher is often reduced to helping revive and popularize Pyrrhonism; by extending skeptical tendencies into a crisis affecting all...

... the occupation of public space in Australia u­ ntil the mid-1980s, when some burly fellas would take their full schooners out to the sidewalk. For Ross Chambers, life and lit­er­at­ure ­were similar kinds of digression, but the long detour was worth the effort. Université Bordeaux Montaigne Works Cited Chambers...

...Cynthia Skenazi “Le Journal de voyage” . Edited by Olivier Millet , Montaigne Studies XV , 1–2 ( 2003 ), Pp. 206 . Copyright © 2003 The Trustees of Columbia University 2003 248 BOOK REVIEWS respond si mal a leur savoir livresque. Les guides de voyage a Rome, les gravures...

... fear of acknowledging (and perhaps even calling for) a more experiential way of learning, knowing, and ultimately teaching. Think of Montaigne’s call, in “De l’institution des enfans,” for a preceptor “[qui] ne loge rien en sa teste par simple authorité et à crédit.” Picture Montaigne as a child...

... de Montaigne pour l'ignorance professee par les jesuites. Concetta Cavallini offre quelques hypotheses sur les circonstances qui entourent l'eventuelle visite de Montaigne aau Tasse enferme l'hopital Sainte-Anne de Ferrare; Lauro-Aime Golliard se penche sur la question du duel chez Montaigne en...

... Montaigne Deleuze 16. This is how Proust, in the letter to Rivière cited above ( Du côté 462), refers to the mood at the end of Swann . 17. Deleuze takes this to be Proust’s own literal view—“Proust aime «la croyance celtique que les âmes de ceux que nous avons perdus sont captives dans...

... Du Bellay et Montaigne. Cette etude fascinante, d'une erudition sure, interessera non seulement les critiques litteraires, mais aussi les historiens et les historiens de l'art. (CYNTHIA SKENAZI, University of California, Santa Barbara) "Le Journal de voyage". Edited by Olivier Millet, Montaigne...

... of perfect fraternal friendship, à la Montaigne.16 The subtle and inexorable insinuation of difference into their model of radical equal­ ity, however, is hastened with Landry s departure from the f­amily to work for a neighbouring farmer, where he acquires not only virile strength and vigour, in contrast...

... explore, animated across the centuries by authors as different as Longinus, Montaigne, Flaubert, Nothomb, and (briefly) Zizek. Although summarizing such a book is always a risk and destined to be unfairly uneven in its selections, the best way to signal this volume's value is to highlight some of its key...

...: Mon pere commande un chalutier (Ie Montaigne) en patrouille dans la mer du Nord; Ie 28 octobre, a hauteur du Cap Griz-Nez, son bateau est coule par les Allemands l4 une torpille, il a su prendre les mesures les plus judicieuses pour Ie ramener en surete dans un port allie et a fait preuve des plus...

... (1538) of Helisenne de Crenne (the pseudonym of Marguerite Briet); serialization in the 1540s, focusing on Herberay des Essarts' adaptation of Amadis de Gaule; and a few essays of Montaigne, including I, 8, "De l'oisivete" and III, 9, "De la vanite." Idle Pursuits presents an introduction followed...

... succinct encapsulation of what seems like a fundamental prob­lem of all serious enquiry into friendship. A­ fter all, Montaigne s non-e­xplanation of his friendship with Étienne de La Boétie paradoxically admits that while his essay aims to analyze friendship as a practice or an in­­ stitution, the precise...

... seems to render its characteristics less verifiable. Moreover, perceptions of odour vary greatly between individuals. Rousseau contends that sensitivity to smell may be more pronounced in women than in men. Yet, almost two centuries earlier, Montaigne, in a delightful essay on smells, describes his...