When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?
Subtitle: Montaigne and being in touch with life
By: Saul Frampton
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780375424717
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: Saul Frampton offers a celebration of perhaps the most enjoyable and yet profound of all Renaissance writers, Michel de Montaigne, whose essays went on to have a huge impact on figures as diverse as Shakespeare, Emerson, and Orson Welles, and whose thoughts, even today, offer a guide and unprecedented insight into the simple matter of being alive.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and index.
Table of contents: title: Waking to the sound of a spinet; title: Because it was him, because it was me; title: To jump or duck at the bang of an arquebus; title: To philosophize is to learn to die; title: Que sçais-je?; title: What do I know?; title: When I am playing with my cat, how do I know she is not playing with me?; title: To rub and polish our brains with others; title: The philosopher's stone; title: The exercises of Venus; title: The touch of a familiar hand; title: A dog, a horse, a book , a glass; title: Of experience.