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  • A Summer with Montaigne

    On the Art of Living Well

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Translated by Tina Kover ...
    "Brings the man to life and shows his questions, ideas, and solutions to be every bit as relevant as they were in the 16th century." — New York Journal of BooksMichel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal—curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to think and live today? ... Read more

    $14.39 CAD

  • A Summer with Pascal

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Translated by Catherine Porter ...
    From an eminent scholar, a spirited introduction to one of the great polymaths in the history of Europe.Blaise Pascal (1623–1662) is best known in the English-speaking world for his contributions to mathematics and physics, with both a triangle and a law in fluid mechanics named after him. Meanwhile, the classic film My Night at Maud’s popularized Pascal’s wager, an invitation to faith that has ... Read more

    $25.29 CAD

  • Proust, a Jewish Way

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Translated by Jody Gladding ...
    Series series European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
    Marcel Proust once wrote, “There is no longer anybody, not even myself, since I cannot leave my bed, who will go along the Rue du Repos to visit the little Jewish cemetery where my grandfather, following a custom that he never understood, went for so many years to lay a stone on his parents’ grave.” Investigating the origin and significance of this statement, Antoine Compagnon offers new insight ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • What is Literature for?

    Inaugural lecture delivered on Thursday 30 November 2006

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    Along with the theoretical or traditionally historical question “What is literature?”, the critical and political question “What can literature do?” begs an answer. What value do contemporary society and culture ascribe to literature? What utility? What role? “My confidence in the future of literature”, wrote Italo Calvino, consists in the knowledge that there are things that only literature can ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Literature, Theory, and Common Sense

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Translated by Carol Cosman ...
    Series series New French Thought Series
    An engaging introduction to contemporary debates in literary theoryIn the late twentieth century, the common sense approach to literature was deemed naïve. Roland Barthes proclaimed the death of the author, and Hillis Miller declared that all interpretation is theoretical. In many a literature department, graduate students spent far more time on Derrida and Foucault than on Shakespeare and Milton. ... Read more

    $101.19 CAD

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    Summer with Montaigne, A

    On the Art of Living Well

    by Antoine Compagnon ...
    Narrated by Fred Stella ...
    Series series Europa Compass

    Unabridged

    3 hours 12 min

    Michel de Montaigne embodies the humanist ideal—curious, measured, contemplative yet not unworldly, witty, free of prejudice, and urbane. But what does this French Renaissance philosopher have to tell us about how to think and live today? In forty short, erudite, and lively chapters written over a single summer, Antoine Compagnon seeks answers to that question.In A Summer with Montaigne, Compagnon ... Read more

    $24.74 CAD

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  • The Great Cat Massacre

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  • Existentialism

    A Very Short Introduction

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  • The Discarded Image

    An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature

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