When I Am Playing With My Cat, How Do I Know She Is Not Playing With - Montaigne and Being in Touch With Life

Informationen zum Autor Saul Frampton studied English and Philosophy at the University of East Anglia, wrote a doctorate on Renaissance literature at Oxford and was a Research Fellow at Cambridge. He lives in Hove, on the Sussex coast. Klappentext In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his brother, and his first-born child. This title offers a celebration of perhaps one of the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers.A funny, warm and accessible work of popular philosophy based on the works of a great Renaissance writer Zusammenfassung In the year 1570, at the age of thirty-seven, Michel de Montaigne gave up his job as a magistrate and retired to his chateau to brood on his own private grief - the deaths of his best friends, his brother, and his first-born child. This title offers a celebration of perhaps one of the most joyful and yet profound of all Renaissance writers.

Product details

• Authors: Saul Frampton, Frampton Saul
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 05.01.2012
• EAN: 9780571234585
• ISBN: 978-0-571-23458-5
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Philosophy; Renaissance