MontaigneA brilliant and impassioned biography of one of the founding fathers of humanism, from one of its greatest defenders in the 20th century Written during the Second World War, Zweig's typically passionate and readable biography of Michel de Montaigne, is also a heartfelt argument for the importance of intellectual freedom, tolerance and humanism. Zweig draws strong parallels between Montaigne's age, when Europe was torn in two by conflict between Catholicism and Protestantism, and his own, in which the twin fanaticisms of Fascism and Communism were on the verge of destroying the pan-continental liberal culture he was born into, and loved dearly. Just as Montaigne sought to remain aloof from the factionalism of his day, so Zweig tried to the last to defend his freedom of thought, and argue for peace and compromise. One of the final works Zweig wrote before his suicide, this is both a brilliantly impassioned portrait of a great mind, and a moving plea for tolerance in a world ruled by cruelty. |
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... impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside? How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my ...
... impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside? How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my ...
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... impose themselves and burden him with their chatter, and of whom it is hard to be rid. When you don't call for them they stay put; you can just pick up this one or that, according to your whim: “Books are my kingdom. And here I seek to ...
... impose themselves and burden him with their chatter, and of whom it is hard to be rid. When you don't call for them they stay put; you can just pick up this one or that, according to your whim: “Books are my kingdom. And here I seek to ...
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... impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside? How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my ...
... impose on me? How to protect that unique part of my soul against enforced submission to rules and measures dictated from outside? How to safeguard the deepest region of my spirit and its matter which belongs to me alone, my body, my ...
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... impose something as deeply personal as inner freedom on individuals, let alone on the masses, and he profoundly detested professional reformers, theoreticians and peddlers of ideology. He knew only too well the colossal task represented ...
... impose something as deeply personal as inner freedom on individuals, let alone on the masses, and he profoundly detested professional reformers, theoreticians and peddlers of ideology. He knew only too well the colossal task represented ...
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... imposing lordly seat. At the heart of a vast domain that this energetic and robust man had acquired plot by plot through innumerable law suits and a sole purchase, the stately castle rose up with its sturdy towers and fortified walls ...
... imposing lordly seat. At the heart of a vast domain that this energetic and robust man had acquired plot by plot through innumerable law suits and a sole purchase, the stately castle rose up with its sturdy towers and fortified walls ...
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