This study focuses on the paradoxical thought leader Michel de Montaigne. Refusing the timelessness of meaning, this often-provocative awakener of consciousness encourages the reader to doubt and to initiate a process of reflection that leads from the postulate of a meaning to the jubilant experience of reflection.
CLIL theme: 4027 -- SCIENCES HUMAINES ET SOCIALES, LETTRES -- Lettres et Sciences du langage -- Lettres -- Etudes littéraires générales et thématiques
ISBN:978-2-406-14443-4
EAN:9782406144434
ISSN: 0986-492X
DOI: 10.15122/isbn.978-2-37312-271-8
Publisher: Classiques Garnier
Online publication: 09-15-2006
Language: French
Keyword: Poetics, critical epistemology, mourning, acedia, otherness, Edmond Lablénie, Cicero, Raymond Sebond, humanism, sixteenth-century literature