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	Montaigne, Michel Eyquem, seigneur de - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Montaigne was one of the greatest masters of the essay as a literary form.
		The essays, which were trials or tests of his own judgment on a diversity of subjects, show the change in Montaigne's thinking as his examination of himself developed into a study of humankind and nature.
		Montaigne's last essays reflect his acceptance of life as good and his conviction that humankind must discover their own nature in order to live with others in peace and dignity.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-montaign.html (461 words)

	montaigne (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Montaigne is one of the greatest intellectuals of 16th century Europe, who went on a cultural tour of Italy to see its artistic beauties and to cure his diseases.
		Montaigne's skepticism is largely confined to An Apology for Raymond Sebond which was originally the (very long) twelth chapter of Book II of the Essays but is often published separately.
		Montaigne is famous for arguing that man is not in anyway superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary.
	www.giovannicaselli.com /paginetraveller/montaigne.htm (835 words)

	A towering intellect \| LRB essay \| Guardian Unlimited Books
		Montaigne's thought processes and his shifting attitudes to his sources, his sudden frisks from what he has experienced to what he has read and back again, these are what the Essays are.
		Montaigne's explorations of the processes of being are as important as the work of any significant philosopher in the Renaissance, despite their apparent lack of firm and consistent principle.
		In an essay on Montaigne, Merleau-Ponty modifies the Cartesian cogito in an aside ("To be conscious is, among other things, to be somewhere else") and goes on to describe Montaigne as putting "not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence".
	books.guardian.co.uk /lrb/articles/0,6109,1082801,00.html (2320 words)

	Montaigne - MSN Encarta
		His essays, which range over a wide variety of topics, are characterized by a discursive style, a lively conversational tone, and the use of numerous quotations from classical writers.
		Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born February 28, 1533, in the Château de Montaigne (near Libourne) of a wealthy family, and educated at the Collège de Guyenne.
		As a thinker Montaigne is noted for his investigation of institutions, opinions, and customs and for his opposition to all forms of dogmatism that have no rational basis.
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	Montaigne's Uses of Classical Learning
		Montaigne lived and wrote his essays during a time when fairly widespread knowledge of the ancients was at or near its zenith.
		Montaigne stands at the threshold of the modern era in the same way that we seem to be standing at a similar threshold.
		Montaigne was attracted to Socrates whose project of personal discovery and whose method of teaching by indirection, by asking probing questions and suspending judgment, corresponded with his own approach in the Essays.
	home.comcast.net /~mlhall/montaigne_ed.html (5263 words)

	Montaigne: On Solitude - Articles - House of Solitude - Hermitary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Montaigne lived during the seething religious civil wars of France, which formed the heart of his reflections on how an intelligent person copes with a world gone mad.
		The Essays reveal him a fideist, a Stoic, a skeptic; there is an independence of spirit that suggests his allegiance is to none but reason alone, but there is also a melancholy that reveals Montaigne an a resigned soul.
		Montaigne quotes Juvenal, Horace, Virgil, Persius, Lucretius, Tibullus, Terence, and Propertius, but these are exercises required to display his wide reading and to identify him with the ancients, whom he projects to be saner company.
	www.hermitary.com /house/montaigne.html (1048 words)

	Montaigne, Michel de Criticism and Essays
		Montaigne's father was a lawyer, soldier, and devout Catholic; his mother was a member of a Spanish family that had converted from Judaism to Protestantism.
		Montaigne's formal education consisted of seven years at the Collège de Guyenne in Bordeaux, followed by the study of law in Bordeaux and Toulouse.
		Eric MacPhail argues that Montaigne's ambivalent attitude towards the monarchy was echoed in his ideas on friendship, and it is through the process of writing “De l'amité,” that Montaigne was able to discover and formulate his ideas on political power.
	www.enotes.com /literary-criticism/montaigne-michel-de (1159 words)

	washingtonpost.com: Of Montaigne: Straight Talk Goes Unbent Through Time's Prism
		I thought his essays, full of Latin quotations and rarely to the point, were as boring and impenetrable as he seemed.
		Montaigne considers topics at his own pace; circles around them, pokes at them, goes where his curiosity leads.
		Montaigne's essays were a substitute for Etienne de La Boetie, who had died, leaving Montaigne without a confidant.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A33009-2004Nov7?language=printer (972 words)

	Essays (Montaigne) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Montaigne wrote in a kind of crafted rhetoric designed to intrigue and involve the reader, sometimes appearing to move in a stream-of-thought from topic to topic and at other times employing a structured style which gives more emphasis to the didactic nature of his work.
		Montaigne is disgusted with the violent and, in his opinion, barbaric conflicts between Catholics and Protestants of his time, and his writings show a pessimism and skepticism quite uncharacteristic for the Renaissance.
		Montaigne considered marriage necessary for the raising of children, but disliked the strong feelings of romantic love as being detrimental to freedom.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Essays_(Montaigne) (739 words)

	Fathom :: The Source for Online Learning
		Montaigne is the equivalent of Shakespeare in the French culture.
		Montaigne is the first person to write a book called Essais, the essays, and he defined the genre of the essay which is so popular today.
		Montaigne's only surviving daughter inherited his library and for about 20 or 25 years the copy was probably kept in the tower where he wrote his essays.
	www.fathom.com /feature/122610 (2487 words)

	Montaigne (1533-1592).
		Montaigne was the initiator and greatest master of the Essay as a modern literary form.
		Much of Montaigne's early life is not known, other than this: his early care was taken out of his mother's hands and at the age of four he came under the direct supervision of his father.
		Montaigne, it seems, did come out of retirement and was to become the mayor of Bordeaux (1581-85).
	www.blupete.com /Literature/Biographies/Literary/Montaigne.htm (2954 words)

	Michel de Montaigne
		Montaigne was born at his family estate in Chãteau de Montaigne, near Bordeaux, in southwest France.
		Montaigne was flattered by her admiration of his work, and called her, perhaps somewhat ironically, his fille d'alliance.
		In 1581 Montaigne was elected mayor of Bordeaux.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /michelde.htm (989 words)

	Anthology of World Literature : Discovery Modules : 6 : Overview
		Although his essays are hardly autobiographical, they reveal a great deal about his own experience as he draws more and more on events he witnessed and persons with whom he conversed to shape his train of thought.
		Although he remained a Catholic, members of Montaigne's family, including his brother and sister, became Protestants; the city of which he was twice mayor, Bordeaux, was located in the center of southwestern France and therefore surrounded by pockets of Huguenot strength.
		In his essays, writing in French, Montaigne explores this new conception of personal behavior, which is understood to be the result of individual quirkiness rather than physiological imbalance.
	www.wwnorton.com /nawol/discovery_modules/dm6_1.htm (1866 words)

	Montaigne; or, the Skeptic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		And yet, since the personal regard which I entertain for Montaigne may be unduly great, I will, under the shield of this prince of egotists, offer, as an apology for electing him as the representative of skepticism, a word or two to explain how my love began and grew for this admirable gossip.
		Montaigne is the frankest and honestest of all writers.
		Montaigne died of a quinsy, at the age of sixty, in 1592.
	www.emersoncentral.com /montaigne.htm (6820 words)

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		Finally, he hoped to acquire the books mentioned by Montaigne in his Essays, but only in their original bindings, so that they would resemble those that once lined the shelves of his library.
		Michel Eyquem de Montaigne was born in the Château de Montaigne in Dordogne on 28 February 1533.
		Michel de Montaigne is one of the rare world-famous French writers who was not only politically engaged, but had an active literary and philosophical career until his death on 13 September 1592.
	www.shareholder.com /bid/news/20031103-121510.cfm (1726 words)

	Amazon.com: Montaigne: Essays: Books: Michel de Montaigne,John M. Cohen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Montaigne, in the preface, implies the essays are written to discover and reveal himself and recommends that no one should waste their "leisure about so frivolous and vain a subject." Although, here he is greatly mistaken.
		Montaigne's essays show a pessimism and skepticism, perhaps based on the kinds of conflicts between Catholics and Protestants going on, in France and elsewhere, as well as the periodic flare of plague.
		Montaigne was sometimes conventional in thought (seeing marriage as necessary for children, and distrusting the idea of romantic love), but other times he was very much a free thinker (particularly when it came to religious dogma or absolutist kinds of philosophical paradigms).
	www.amazon.com /Montaigne-Essays-Michel/dp/014017897X (2088 words)

	Michel de Montaigne - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Montaigne was born in Périgord on the family estate Château de Montaigne, in a town now called Saint-Michel-de-Montaigne, not far from Bordeaux.
		Montaigne died in 1592 at the Château de Montaigne and was buried nearby.
		Montaigne's book of essays is one of the few books scholars can confirm Shakespeare had in his library; the essay On Cannibals was a direct source for The Tempest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Montaigne (1566 words)

	Example Degree Essays - Philosophy Essays - Montaigne
		Staborinski argues from this that because Montaigne began from a position quite close to the Stoics, ‘it is not unreasonable that we should be reminded of the successive movements in Hegel’s Phenomenology: stoicism, skepticism, and the unhappy consciousness.[2]’
		Yet Montaigne, makes the attraction of the here so strong in the ‘digressions’ that seem to dominate the Apology, in the paradoxical richness of the world of appearances, so that what comes out of his writing is a vigorous preference for what is ours (against the unattainable ‘supercelestes’).
		Montaigne’s inward-turn, his writing as self-portrait, leads to back to phenomena after having established the infinite remoteness of God and of pure essence.
	www.degree-essays.com /essays/philosophyessays/montaigne.html (556 words)

	Michel de Montaigne Summary
		Montaigne is known for inventing the essay, —he became...
		In this excerpt, Regosin traces changes in the critical reception of Montaigne's Essays from the literal interpretations of the writer's own time to the current focus on figurative and metaphorical meanings.
		In the following essay, Posner explores Montaigne's version of the ideal nobleman during a period when the political, social, and military power of the nobility was eroding.
	www.bookrags.com /Michel_de_Montaigne (365 words)

	Montaigne, Essays. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		No old age can be so decrepid in a man who has passed life in honor, but it must be venerable, especially to his children, whose soul he must have trained up to their duty by reason, not by necessity and the need they have of him, nor by harshness and compulsion.
		There's all the reason in the world to limit the human mind within the strictest limits possible: in study, as in all the rest, we ought to have it's steps and advances numbered and fixed, and that the limits of its inquisition be bounded by art.
		I let Nature work, supposing her to be sufficiently armed with teeth and claws to defend herself from the assaults of infirmity, and to uphold that contexture, the dissolution of which she flies and abhors.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/677708/posts (10025 words)

	Essay 1: Essays? After Montaigne?
		It was different in the times of Montaigne and up to most of the twentieth century, but in our electronic age and with Encarta at the tips of your fingers, erudition, factual knowledge, and learning in general has lost most of its value.
		My essays, as well as their prototype, are born from a deep melancholy—a beautifully sounding word (mela of fl, resonates with mela of honey) which in modern language has a sinister and totally undeserved meaning of depression, aggravated by its social connotation.
		Montaigne, having finished his career in 1570, was anxious to start his golden years of leisure and learning, but he missed his friend Etienne de la Boëtie who died in 1563, and felt very lonely.
	users.ids.net /~yuri/Essay1.html (1114 words)

	Classics Revisited (6) (Rexroth)
		The rhythms of Montaigne at his most lyric survive in the prose poems of Léon-Paul Fargue, the greatest prose poet of the twentieth century and a very Montaigne reborn in the cafés of the Faubourg Saint-Germain between the wars.
		The dilemmas that create the tensions in Marcus Aurelius are met by Montaigne with the simplest possible solutions of ethical activism, the commonplace relations of a country gentleman with common people, with Henri IV or the woodcutter on the estate.
		We think of Montaigne as the begetter of the English secular sensibility at its most acute, and we trace his influence on Shakespeare and Bacon and Locke; but we must not forget that his great popularity in seventeenth-century England also helped to form the peculiarly English tradition of sweet-tempered spirituality.
	www.bopsecrets.org /rexroth/cr/6.htm (3398 words)

	Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Despite his skepticism, Montaigne realized that the intellectual horizon of his day was full of exciting new developments.
		His essays reflect many interests, plus a refreshing honesty about the frailties of human nature.
		Montaigne writes about vanity, the value of friendship, "That to Study Philosophy Is to Learn to Die," and a host of other topics.
	www.ou.edu /cas/psc/bookmontaigne.htm (706 words)

	Michel de Montaigne
		Montaigne is a great French Renaissance thinker who took himself as the great object of study in his Essays.
		Montaigne is famous for arguing that man is not in any way superior to the beasts, in fact, quite the contrary.
		The Renaissance was a period of expanding horizons, and one in which there was a vast increase in knowledge of the world and its inhabitants.
	oregonstate.edu /instruct/phl302/philosophers/montaigne.html (471 words)

	The Essays of Sir Francis Bacon
		It is commonly accepted that Bacon, with his questioning nature, popularized the essay format which he borrowed from the French thinker and writer Michel de Montaigne.
		Students present their visual representation of the Bacon essay to the full group, presenting it orally by answering the questions from the form and adding whatever else they wish to add.
		Students who do not fully comprehend the essay which they were assigned may need to read the work aloud with teacher or peer assistance.
	www.glc.k12.ga.us /BuilderV03/LPTools/LPShared/lpdisplay.asp?LPID=16598 (1311 words)

	Alibris: Montaigne
		In 1572 Montaigne retired from public life and began the reading and writing which were to develop into "assays" of his thoughts and opinions.
		Emerson's incisive essays on Plato, Shakespeare, Montaigne, Swedenborg, Napoleon, and Goethe.
		The essays of Montaigne (1533-92) offer a haunting and deeply influential picture of Man and his place in the University partly in the form of a self-portrait, arising out of a crisis of melancholy - a pioneering and ruthlessly honest analysis of his own thoughts and habits, feelings and failings.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/subject/Montaigne (917 words)

	French: Authors & Texts: Montaigne
		This is the opening page of an extensive library of links connected to influential Renaissance thinkers (da Vinci, Machiavelli, Luther, Rabelais, Montaigne, Palissy) and important events (Edict of Nantes, Colloque de Poissy).
		Emphasis on the theatrical/visual aspect of the essays.
		Twenty-one essays that Montaigne published in 1575, translated into English by Charles Cotton.
	www.fas.harvard.edu /~rll/resources/french/montaigne.html (312 words)

	Michel de Montaigne, Essays (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		I have been a fan of Michel de Montaigne since before I knew he existed.
		Both of these writers have the style that I associate with Montaigne- rambling, often entirely off-topic, with many digressions into and out of learned discourse.
		Tristram Shandy purports to be and autobiography, though it is only a novel, and OTSOG is a search into the origin of the quote which most people associate with Newton: "If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".
	glad.best.vwh.net /montaigne/essays.html (137 words)

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