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Cahiers Parisiens / Parisian Notebooks, No. 4
The Cahiers Parisiens/Parisian Notebooks publish selected papers in English and French drawn from international conferences held at the University of Chicago Center in Paris. This fourth volume contains papers presented during the academic year 2006-07. Proceedings of the following conferences are part of this volume: "Marx in the 21st Century," "Cervantes and France," "Dictionnaires Monolingues et Bilingues: Langue, Culture, Littérature," "Modernités de Perrault," "La Souveraineté entre les Anciens et les Modernes," "Machiavelisme/Anti-Machiavelisme: Figures Françaises," and "La Biographie des Ecrivains à la Renaissance."
Montaigne
A definitive biography of the great French essayist and thinker One of the most important writers and thinkers of the Renaissance, Michel de Montaigne (1533–92) helped invent a literary genre that seemed more modern than anything that had come before. But did he do it, as he suggests in his Essays, by retreating to his chateau and stoically detaching himself from his violent times? Philippe Desan overturns this long standing myth by showing that Montaigne was constantly connected to and concerned with realizing his political ambitions—and that the literary and philosophical character of the Essays largely depends on them. Desan shows how Montaigne conceived of each edition of the Essays as an indispensable prerequisite to the next stage of his public career. It was only after his political failure that Montaigne took refuge in literature, and even then it was his political experience that enabled him to find the right tone for his genre. The most comprehensive and authoritative biography of Montaigne yet written, this sweeping narrative offers a fascinating new picture of his life and work.
Humanism in Crisis
The uniqueness and importance of Humanism in Crisis arises from the way in which a significant historical event--the end of the French Renaissance--is examined from several different perspectives in order to provide a thorough investigation of its causes and consequences. Although historians, philosophers, sociologists, and literary critics view the French Renaissance differently, they all seem to agree on the notion that something happened between 1580 and 1630--between Montaigne and Descartes--that transformed every aspect of society and that undermined the foundation of humanism in France, dividing the French Renaissance from the "Grand siècle" that followed it. The causes of this declin...
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