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Chargement... How to live : a life of Montaigne in one question and twenty attempts at an answer (original 2010; édition 2011)par Sarah Bakewell
Information sur l'oeuvreComment vivre ? - une vie de Montaigne en une question et vingt tentatives de réponse par Sarah Bakewell (2010)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Sarah Bakewell aborde Montaigne de façon originale. Dans Comment vivre?, on aura droit à des tranches de vie et d'oeuvre de Montaigne, on se permettra d'examiner divers regards sur cette oeuvre, on verra comment elle a été lue à travers les siècles et comment plusieurs ont reconnu dans ces écrits une part de soi, les pensées d'un frère qui vibre tel un harmonique à des siècles d'intervalle. On sera confronté aux épisodes de vie de Montaigne et on découvrira comment ceux-ci plongés dans leur contexte social et politique ont contribué à l'émergence des Essais et des autres écrits du philosophe. Sur un ton agréable, Sarah Bakewell s'insinue dans ce sujet immense par cette simple question Comment vivre? et nous offre diverses réponses tirées de l'oeuvre, des réponses singulières qui témoignent chacune d'un angle différent sur le parcours du philosophe, non des prescriptions, mais des directions possibles: Ne pas s'inquiéter de la mort; Lire beaucoup, oublier l'essentiel de ce qu'on a lu; Survivre à l'amour et à la perte; Utiliser de petites ruses; Tout remettre en question; S'arracher au sommeil de l'habitude; Garder son humanité. Sarah Bakewell met ainsi en lumière toute la richesse des Essais et montre à quel point les lecteurs des siècles suivants s'y sont vus et s'y sont lus. J'aurai beaucoup appris à la lecture de cet ouvrage, mais surtout j'y ai pris plaisir. [http://rivesderives.blogspot.ca/2016/01/comment-vivre-une-vie-de-montaigne-en.html]
It is hard to imagine a better introduction-or reintroduction- to Montaigne than Bakewell's book. It is easy to imagine small improvements, however. Bakewell, cleverly, has nonetheless managed to tap into the booming modern market for such “quick boosts” of wisdom (not all of them by any means as harmless as tips on eyebrow shaping), while actually writing a serious biography of a serious thinker from an age less like our own that we might solipsistically think. She’s not the first to take on such a task, of course. Superior literary lessons for life have become an established sub-genre of the self-help boom: How to Win Friends and Influence Readers of the Paris Review. Thus books such as Alain de Botton’s How Proust Can Change Your Life or John Armstrong’s Love, Life, Goethe have explored this territory in their different ways. Bakewell’s life of Montaigne combines some of the merits of de Botton’s knowing, entertaining intellectual squib and Armstrong’s thorough and absorbing biographical study. If her work enjoys a popular resonance greater than theirs—and I think it may—it’s most likely a tribute to its subject, Montaigne. Prix et récompensesDistinctions
How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love - such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: how do you live? How do you do the good or honourable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them 'essays', meaning 'attempts' or 'tries'. Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. "The Essays" was an instant bestseller, and over four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom and entertainment - and in search of themselves. This book, a spirited and singular biography (and the first full life of Montaigne in English for nearly fifty years), relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored. It traces his bizarre upbringing (made to speak only Latin), youthful career and sexual adventures, his travels, and his friendships with the scholar and poet Etienne de La Boetie and with his adopted 'daughter', Marie de Gournay. And as we read, we also meet his readers - who for centuries have found in Montaigne an inexhaustible source of answers to the haunting question, 'how to live?'. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque
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