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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Michel de Montaigne"”.
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Early modern masters of suspicion
This thesis interprets Niccolò Machiavelli, Michel de Montaigne, Francis Bacon, and John Milton, casting them as Masters of Suspicion. The category of ‘Master of Suspicion’ was introduced by Ricœur (1970) to describe how Marx, Nietzsche and Freud approached their respective economic, …
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Here, In This Place: An Essay Collection
The personal essay is difficult to define in part because of the diversity of structures and subjects that can fall under this category within creative nonfiction. Defining the form in terms of the fragment, specifically the fragment as it was envisioned by Romantic philosophers, acknowledges the …
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The Unknown Life of the Philosopher: The Significance of Biography for the Pursuit of the Good Life
… all trying to create theories which will guide others on how they can pursue a good life. The problem with many of these schools is the dehumanisation of philosophy, which they create through the lack of knowledge of the philosopher themselves. Separating man from philosophy. Michel de …
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Assembling Caliban: French and Other European Depictions of American Bodies in the Sixteenth Century
… plus years, various European texts from Mandevilles Travels to The Tempest depicted European encounters with foreign bodies. While descriptions varied, certain recurring themes and tropes gradually developed as European explorers expanded the scope of their ethno-geographic inquiry. One …
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Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724
My aim in this project is to demonstrate how the reconfiguration of custom in the writings of Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon opened up a new discourse of collective identity that found its most developed expression in the writings of the French and English people who first colonized North …
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A educação crítica do renascimento:a moral de Montaigne como um reflexo da sociedade renascentista
… tem como pretensão investigar o tema da educação de acordo com as ideias que a obra Ensaios, do filósofo Michel de Montaigne, apresenta a seus leitores, utilizando como base os capítulos “Dos Canibais” (I, 31) e “Sobre a Educação das Crianças” (I, 26). Pretende-se compreender como suas reflexões …
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Nietzsche and Montaigne: cheerful naturalism
The influence of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne on the thought of Friedrich Nietzsche has, hitherto, received scant scholarly attention. The aim of this thesis is to address this lacuna in the literature by making evident the importance of the Essays to the development of Nietzsche’s philosophy. …
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Minding the Mundane: The Critique of Political Participation from Epicurus to Montaigne
… as well as (in modified form) in early modern European theorists influenced by Epicureanism. The mundane perspective is a way of looking at and talking about political activity, one which is critical of the lofty self-conceptions and aspirations most political communities create for …
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L'intelligibilité de la pratique. Entre Foucault et Sartre
… life in France in the 1960's, we shall understake a confrontation between the ideas of Foucault and Sartre. Without playing down their differences of opinion, which have often been emphasized by the humanistic dispute, we shall endeavor to bring forward a topic thse twi authors share : the …