How to live : or, A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer /
By: Bakewell, Sarah.
Contributor(s): Montaigne, Michel de.
Publisher: London : Vintage, 2011Description: 387 p. : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text | text | still image Media type: unmediated | unmediated Carrier type: volume | volumeISBN: 9780099485155; 9780099485155:; 009948515X.Other title: A life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer.Subject(s): Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Political and social views | Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 | Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592 -- Philosophy | Essayists -- France -- Biography | Authors, French -- 16th century -- Biography | Humanism | Philosophy, Renaissance | Statesmen -- France -- Biography | Conduct of life -- Philosophy | France -- Intellectual life -- 16th century | France -- Social conditions -- 16th centuryDDC classification: 171.2092 BAK Summary: How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Standard Loan | ATU Sligo Yeats Library Main Lending Collection | 171.2092 BAK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Lost Checked out | 07/12/2021 | 0062627 |
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Includes index.
How to live? This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience. This biography of Montaigne relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.