Montaigne

Author(s)

• Friedrich, Hugo
• Desan, Philippe

Bibliographic Information

Montaigne

Hugo Friedrich ; edited and with an introduction by Philippe Desan ; translated [from the German] by Dawn Eng

University of California Press, c1991

• : pbk. : alk. paper

Other Title

Montaigne

Note

Translation of: Montaigne. A Francke AG Verlag, c1949

Includes bibliographical references (p. 377-411) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Friedrich considers the Montaigne of the Essays on of the first "moralists" in the French sense of the term, recording with anthropological fervor and in fresh, informal language the full spectrum of human thought and commerce as he saw it. Philippe Desan, who introduces this fine translation, commends Friedrich's holistic interpretation of Montaigne's unstructured creation, so often reduced by critics to its smallest fragments. Friedrich, says Desan, evokes "an epoch, distilled from accounts given by the best witness of the Renaissance."

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Details

• NCID: BA18422741
• ISBN:
  • 0520065816
  • 0520072537
• LCCN: 90047726
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: ger
• Place of Publication: Berkeley
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 433 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PQ1643
  • DC20 : 844/.3
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592. Essais
  • LCSH : French essays -- History and criticism