When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? : Montaigne and being in touch with life / Saul Frampton.
2011
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Title
When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me? : Montaigne and being in touch with life / Saul Frampton.
Edition
1st American ed.
Created/published
New York : Pantheon Books, ©2011.
Description
300 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Associated name
Summary
Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, Michel de Montaigne, whose essays went on to have a huge impact on figures as diverse as Shakespeare, Emerson, and Orson Welles, and whose thoughts, even today, offer a guide and unprecedented insight into the simple matter of being alive.
Bibliography, etc.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and index.
Contents
Waking to the sound of a spinet
Because it was him, because it was me
To jump or duck at the bang of an arquebus
To philosophize is to learn to die
Que sçais-je?
What do I know?
When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?
To rub and polish our brains with others
The philosopher's stone
The exercises of Venus
The touch of a familiar hand
A dog, a horse, a book , a glass
Of experience.
Because it was him, because it was me
To jump or duck at the bang of an arquebus
To philosophize is to learn to die
Que sçais-je?
What do I know?
When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?
To rub and polish our brains with others
The philosopher's stone
The exercises of Venus
The touch of a familiar hand
A dog, a horse, a book , a glass
Of experience.
Place of creation/publication
United States -- New York (State) -- New York.
Item Details
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PQ1643 .F73 2011