How to Live
Subtitle: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York City, New York, USA
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9781590514252
Description: How does one live? How does one do the good or honorable thing, while flourishing and feeling happy? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Montaigne, perhaps the first truly modern individual. A nobleman, public official and wine-grower, he wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. He called them "essays," meaning "attempts" or "tries." Into them, he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, as well as the appalling events of the religious civil wars raging around him. The Essays was an instant bestseller and, over four hundred years later, Montaigne's honesty and charm still draw readers. This spirited biography relates the story of his life by way of the questions he posed and the answers he explored.--From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Q. How to live?
pagenum: 1; label: 1
title: Q. How to live? A. Don't worry about death
pagenum: 12; label: 2
title: Q. How to live? A. Pay attention
pagenum: 23; label: 3
title: Q. How to live? A. Be born
pagenum: 39; label: 4
title: Q. How to live? A. Read a lot, forget most of what you read, and be slow-wi tted
pagenum: 64 |; label: 5
title: Q. How to live? A. Survive love and loss
pagenum: 90; label: 6
title: Q. How to live? A. Use little tricks
pagenum: 109; label: 7
title: Q. How to live? A. Question everything
pagenum: 123; label: 8
title: Q. How to live? A. Keep a private room behind the shop
pagenum: 154; label: 9
title: Q. How to live? A. Be convivial: live with others
pagenum: 170; label: 10
title: Q. How to live? A. Wake from the sleep of habit
pagenum: 182; label: 11
title: Q. How to live? A. Live temperately
pagenum: 195; label: 12
title: Q. How to live? A. Guard your humanity
pagenum: 203; label: 13
title: Q. How to live? A. Do something no one has done before
pagenum: 222; label: 14
title: Q. How to live? A. See the world
pagenum: 227; label: 15
title: Q. How to live? A. Do a good job, but not too good a job
pagenum: 245; label: 16
title: Q. How to live? A. Philosophize only by accident
pagenum: 274; label: 17
title: Q. How to live? A. Reflect on everything; regret nothing
pagenum: 286; label: 18
title: Q. How to live? A. Give up control
pagenum: 291; label: 19
title: Q. How to live? A. Be ordinary and imperfect
pagenum: 316; label: 20
title: Q. How to live? A. Let life be its own answer
pagenum: 321; title: Acknowledgments
pagenum: 329; title: Chronology
pagenum: 331; title: Notes
pagenum: 335; title: Sources
pagenum: 367; title: List of Illustrations
pagenum: 373; title: Index
pagenum: 377