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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"montaigne"”.
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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
… of François Rabelais and the essays of Michel de Montaigne. The mundane perspective calls us and our politics back down to earth. It is therefore of interest to scholars and citizens seeking to moderate the increasingly heated politics of contemporary liberal democracies, and to those seeking a …
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A educação crítica do renascimento:a moral de Montaigne como um reflexo da sociedade renascentista
… 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 ultrapassam o autorretrato filosófico e se configuram como uma …
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Depiction of Widow Immolation In Works by Montaigne, Voltaire, Bernardin De Saint-Pierre, and Verne
… and discussed it. Chapter 2 examines Michel de Montaigne's essay, 'De la vertu,' which criticizes the attribution of opposite meanings to the act of suicide by making a direct comparison between the Indian rite and a French wife's suicide. Chapter 3 compares the ways in which male characters …
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Early modern masters of suspicion
… 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, epistemological …
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The Unknown Life of the Philosopher: The Significance of Biography for the Pursuit of the Good Life
… Separating man from philosophy. Michel de Montaigne is one philosopher who presents us with this ‘New Mode' of philosophy, a term used by Ann Hartle. Through the use of his own self reflections and biographical writing to arise at this question, ‘how we can live the good life?’. Montaigne …
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Communication, Relevance, and Power in Montaigne's 'Essais'
This study explores Michel de Montaigne’s interest in how communication functions through intention and inference. Throughout his Essais, Montaigne suggests that communication, whether verbal or extralinguistic, is fundamentally an interaction between minds. To account for this portrayal of human …
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Here, In This Place: An Essay Collection
… ancient literature and the Essais of Michel de Montaigne, as well as its modernist and postmodernist evolution. The creative portion of this thesis consists of a collection of essays by Meghan O’Dea entitled Here, In This Place. The introductory essay discusses how the theory of the fragment …
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Assembling Caliban: French and Other European Depictions of American Bodies in the Sixteenth Century
… André Thevet, Jean de Léry, and Michel de Montaigne, are examined here in order to both explore their thematic heritage and to access their intellectual impact.
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John Donne's "Songs and Sonnets" as Poetic Essays
… in their lives and interests between Montaigne and Donne. From these we proceeded to examine the qualities of Montaigne's Essays and the characteristics of style and structure they possess. We concluded with the likely probability that Donne knew Montaigne's work. In Chapter II we will …
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The facade and the contextual expression of dynamic use : a culinary arts school and restaurant in Paris
… The site is located in Paris, on Avenue Montaigne, adjacent to the mid-point of the Champs-Eiysees. The project is a culinary arts school with student housing and a restaurant. The first part of the thesis describes the historical, political, and social factors that bear on the context. …
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Customary Practice: The Colonial Transformation of European Concepts of Collective Identity, 1580-1724
… 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 America. Among the authors whose work I examine are Marc …
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Shakespearean fama
… are strange or novel: the curious nature of what Montaigne called the ‘other life’ of fame (the extension of the self into into the imaginative regard of others); the ways in which literary (especially lyric) art can be said to have life or be perpetual; and, more generally, how the stuff of fama …
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Rearing the Royals: Architecture and the Spatialization of Royal Childhood in France, 1499-1610
… on childhood by authors such as Erasmus and Montaigne, demonstrating how contemporary childrearing beliefs influenced the built environment. Spaces for the children’s domestic officers form the subject of Chapter 2, which asks how buildings visualized the court’s hierarchy and distinguished …
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The ethics of space, secrecy, and solitude: domestic space in French sixteenth-century literature and visual culture
… de Navarre’s Heptaméron (1549), and Michel de Montaigne’s Essais (1580-1595), as well as attitudes towards the building of family homes expressed in architectural treatises by Leon Battista Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio, and Philibert de l’Orme. The study demonstrates how the changing use of …
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Continuity as Crisis: Two Traditions of Theorizing about Animal Minds
… thinkers as diverse as Plutarch, Lucretius, Montaigne, La Mettrie, Hume, Darwin, Margaret Washburn and Kristin Andrews, who articulate and defend naturalistic approaches to cognition that do not presuppose a cognitive hierarchy with human abilities situated at the top. This tradition has been …
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Improving behavioral health access and engagement in post-stroke depression support among adult stroke survivors
Problem: Post-stroke depression (PSD) is a common and frequently underrecognized complication of stroke recovery that is associated with poorer functional outcomes, reduced quality of life, increased healthcare utilization, and elevated suicide risk. At Trinity Health in Muskegon, MI, routine …
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