Dettagli del libro
Formato
Brossura
Pagine
468
Lingua
Inglese
Pubblicato
Jul 16, 1991
Editore
University of California Press
ISBN-10
0520072537
ISBN-13
9780520072534
Descrizione
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."