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Synopsis
Although Montaigne achieved a balance that made him a model humanist thinker, his temperament was sanguine-melancholic. Screech reassesses the Essais, showing how Montaigne steered his melancholy into appropriate psychological channels, seeking a balance of body and soul as a means to avoid madness.
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About the Author
M. A. Screech is an emeritus fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. He is recognized as a world authority on the Renaissance and was inducted into the French Legion of Honor for his translation of Montaignes Essays.
Review
An invaluable literary companion to the essays of Montaigne ... the insights it provides are remarkable. (Anthony Storr Sunday Times)
Original and important. . . . His study will easily fulfil its avowed aim of making Montaigne's Essays more comprehensible and more enjoyable. (James Supple Times Higher Education)
A probing, loving companion to the masterwork. (Nicholas Wollaston Observer)
A sensitive probe into how Montaigne resolved for himself the age-old ambiguities of melancholia and, in doing so, spoke of what he called the 'human condition'. (Roy Porter London Review Of Books)
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- PublisherGerald Duckworth & Co Ltd
- Publication date1983
- ISBN 10 0715616986
- ISBN 13 9780715616987
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages194
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