Nice Concepts On Friendship (Penguin Nice Concepts)
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All through historical past, some books have modified the world. They’ve reworked the way in which we see ourselves – and one another. They’ve impressed debate, dissent, conflict and revolution. They’ve enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They’ve enriched lives – and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the nice thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose concepts shook civilization, and helped make us who we’re. Michel de Montaigne was the originator of the fashionable essay type; in these numerous items he expresses his views on relationships, contemplates the concept that man isn’t any totally different from any animal, argues that each one cultures must be revered, and makes an attempt, by an exploration of himself, to know the character of humanity.
Writer : Penguin UK; New Ed version (February 1, 2005)
Language : English
Paperback : 128 pages
ISBN-10 : 0141018860
ISBN-13 : 978-0141018867
Merchandise Weight : 2.96 ounces
Dimensions : 4.38 x 0.33 x 7.08 inches
Amazon Customer –
Great read for any teen
Bought this for my son as it was recommended by a school mate he loved this read
Gary16 –
Montaigne’s romanticism.
Montaigne’s, ‘On Friendship,’ published in this Penguin ‘Great Ideas’ series is, at least in the title essay, absolute romanticised crap. (Friendship only occurs once every three hundred years, he was the once, women are incapable of it, it’s the divine unification of souls, it proceeds in a perfect, uniform, calm, even harmony etc.), and is, in this one essay, devoid of any merit except a kind of highbrow, classical, allusive style behind which any semblance of accuracy or reality is hidden.Interesting to me that Montaigne, beloved of good contemporary writers like Paul Theroux, actually wrote hogwash along with whatever else he wrote that had merit.We may thus disrespect and disavow the saints of the intellectual canon, we take any idea on its merit.On the other hand as he writes of his special friendship, like a star struck lover with a passion that is unusually mellow, as he and his friend lose themselves entirely in each other, I begin to feel sympathy for the poetry of it all. Even if it’s imaginary. It’s friendship written about like lovers. Obviously moving to him.
Amazon Customer –
received ‘ on the suffering of the world’ and ‘ on friendship’ together, both of them have got little stain on their awesome cover. Packaging could have been have better.
Barbara M –
Bought this for a Book Club read. Interesting.