Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592), ‘Of Sadness or Sorrow’, ‘That We Laugh or Cry for the Same Thing’ and ‘Of Anger’

2021 ◽  
pp. 238-250
Author(s):  
Katie Barclay ◽  
François Soyer
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne

Pierre Michel et Michel de Montaigne

Moreana ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 20 (Number 79-8 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 201-202
Author(s):  
Germain Marc’hadour
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne

Radical Moderation

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas I. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Dual Roles

Renaissance theories of diplomacy seek to address the tension between the ambassador’s dual roles as mediator between princes and representative of one prince exclusively. Michel de Montaigne transposes this concern onto the question of how to negotiate the resolution of civil conflict when one is a partisan within the conflict. In his view, moderation is the capacity that this activity demands. This is a deeply paradoxical virtue: if one is to be moderate and not overly hostile toward all signs of partisanship, one must retain some contact with partisan extremes. Montaigne argues that one should handle this paradox by acknowledging the customary, habitual aspects of one’s partisan attachments, so that one may affirm them without incapacitating oneself politically. The chapter then compares Montaigne’s conception of moderation with William Connolly’s conception of “bicameral citizenship,” which also seeks to enable non-incapacitating partisanship.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas I. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Political ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Northern European ◽  
Political Conception ◽  
Legal Principle ◽  
Ethical Disposition

In academic debates and popular political discourse, tolerance almost invariably refers either to an individual moral or ethical disposition or to a constitutional legal principle. However, for the political actors and ordinary residents of early modern Northern European countries torn apart by religious civil war, tolerance was a political capacity, an ability to talk to one’s religious and political opponents in order to negotiate civil peace and other crucial public goods. This book tells the story of perhaps the greatest historical theorist-practitioner of this political conception of tolerance: Michel de Montaigne. This introductory chapter argues that a Montaignian insistence that political opponents enter into productive dialogue with each other is worth reviving and promoting in the increasingly polarized democratic polities of the twenty-first century.

Philosophers in the New World: Montaigne and the Tradition of Epideictic Rhetoric

2012 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eric MacPhail
Keyword(s):  
New World ◽  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Epideictic Rhetoric ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
The Relationship

This article studies the essays of Michel de Montaigne in the context of the tradition of epideictic rhetoric from antiquity to the Renaissance, with particular attention to the humanist reception of Aristotle's Rhetoric. The focus of this attention is the relationship between epideictic and consensus, which proves to be more problematic than Aristotle seems to have anticipated. If we read Montaigne's essay “Des Cannibales” as a paradoxical encomium and compare it to Plutarch's declamation on the fortune of Alexander, we can see how epideictic works to undermine consensus and even to challenge the very impulse to conform to social and ethical norms.

scholarly journals A meditatio mortis montaigniana

2012 ◽  
Vol 53 (126) ◽  
pp. 463-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduino José Orione
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne

Este artigo investiga o ensaio "Que philosopher c'est apprendre a mourir", de Michel de Montaigne. Trata-se de um texto que é um bom exemplo da forma como o filósofo rejeita a tradição metafísica na qual o problema da morte sempre foi pensado. Mostramos que a originalidade deste ensaio reside no fato de Montaigne nos aconselhar a seguir a natureza, que, em seu pensamento, se confunde com o costume.

scholarly journals América, el otro de Montaigne y Cervantes

2019 ◽  
pp. 37-55
Author(s):  
Jose-Miguel Marinas
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne ◽  
Miguel De Cervantes

El presente texto reflexiona sobre la mirada que ve las Indias, que ve América. No tanto los detalles de su contenido nuevo, sino la construcción de una nueva manera de apreciar y reparar en el mundo que se produce por el radical acontecimiento del descubrimiento, conquista, colonización y explotación de las Indias Occidentales. Mirar la mirada, por tanto, es la tarea, y no tanto lo visto. Este ejercicio se centra en dos ejemplos cercanos y a la vez descomunales que son Michel de Montaigne y Miguel de Cervantes. Para ello, se darán tres pasos: (a) ligar la mirada americana y la modernidad del sur, (b) presentar algunos indicios y estructura del discurso americano en Montaigne (c) comparar con los indicios y estructura del discurso americano de Cervantes.

scholarly journals Los caníbales: una lectura desde Maquiavelo y Montaigne

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 260
Author(s):  
Eugenia Mattei
Keyword(s):  
Michel De Montaigne

<p>En el presente artículo se aborda el hilo que conecta a Nicolás Maquiavelo y a Michel de Montaigne a través de la presencia de los caníbales. ¿Por qué los caníbales? Los caníbales es el arquetipo en el cual se construye “el otro”, “lo bárbaro”, “lo salvaje”, “lo incivilizado” y “lo poco ilustrado”. En el modo en el cual Maquiavelo y Montaigne tematizan dicha figura, se puede dilucidar cómo estos autores entienden las relaciones políticas. En este sentido, el artículo está dividido en cuatro partes: en la primera, se presenta la introducción al tema y se aborda de modo sucinto la literatura especializada; en la segunda parte, se analiza la tematización que hicieron tanto Montaigne como Maquiavelo sobre la fuerza que ejercen las costumbres en los hombres; una vez realizado esto, se analiza en la tercera parte la figura de los caníbales en ambos autores; por último, se presentan las conclusiones del trabajo de investigación realizado.</p>

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