Essays, Book I - Early Modern Texts.
Almanac: Montaigne on playing games. July 3, 2018 by Terry Teachout “I know very well, for what concerns myself, that from having been brought up in my childhood to a plain and straightforward way of dealing, and from having had an aversion to all manner of juggling and foul play in my childish sports and recreations (and, indeed, it is to be.
Orientalism is more an indicator of the power the West holds over the Orient, than about the Orient itself. After Said, numerous studies have been published on the different orientalisms of the West that various countries and cultures of Asia have suffered.
Montaigne, for good measure, also peppered his essays with myriads of what bloggers would call external links. His own thoughts are strewn with and complicated by the aphorisms and anecdotes of.
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Second, Zweig has intuited something truly important about Montaigne's writing in this short essay. In a time of crisis, such as the 16th-century France of religious wars that Montaigne experienced, but also the Europe of Hitler and genocide that Zweig knew firsthand, Montaigne was a reliable guide to sanity, tolerance, and humility, all the values humankind hoped to salvage.
In a series of essays placed into sections entitled 'Departures', 'Motives', 'Landscape', 'Art' and 'Return', De Botton considers the satisfactions and disappointments inherent in travelling, with plenty of characteristic digressions into paintings and photographs along the way. Ruskin, Baudelaire and Wordsworth are his literary companions.
Analyzing a varied corpus—from German and Dutch travelogues to Spanish humanist treaties, French essays, Flemish paintings, and English diaries—this collection thus breathes fresh air into the critique of Orientalism and provides productive new perspectives for the study of east-west and indeed globalized exchanges in the early modern world.