Michel de Montaigne: Essais. Eine Auswahl: Ein philosophisches Meisterwerk der Weltliteratur

Geschrieben von Michel de Montaigne

Erzählt von Sven Görtz

"Essais", das bedeutet "Versuche". Michel de Montaigne (1533 – 1592) begründete mit ihnen ein neues literarisches Genre, indem er die wichtigen philosophischen Themen seiner Zeit einer Untersuchung unterzog. Die vorliegende Auswahl präsentiert: Über die Freundschaft, Von der Erfahrung, Von der Mäßigung, Über die Einsamkeit, Man muss seinen Willen beschränken.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: BÄNG Management & Verlag
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31. Dez. 2021
• ISBN: 9783955978860

Michel de Montaigne

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was a French philosopher, essayist, and statesman. Born in Aquitaine at the Château de Montaigne, he was raised in a wealthy and powerful family with Spanish, Portuguese, and Sephardic Jewish ancestry. Educated by tutors from his father’s humanist circle, he went on to study under Latin scholar George Buchanan at the College of Guienne in Bordeaux. After completing a law degree, he was appointed counselor of the Parlement in Bordeaux and from 1561 to 1563 served as a courtier to Charles IX. After retiring from public life in 1871, he began working on his celebrated Essais (1580). Believed to be inspired by the loss of his dear friend Étienne de La Boétie, a prominent humanist and poet of the French Renaissance, the Essais contain Montaigne’s reflections on literature, the classics, philosophy, human nature, and selfhood. Considered a landmark work of pre-Enlightenment French philosophy, Montaigne’s magnum opus both popularized the essay as a literary form and influenced a wide range of Western thinkers, including William Shakespeare, René Descartes, Blaise Pascal, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, and Friedrich Nietzsche.