Asset Details
Do you wish to reserve the book?
L'animal chez Michel de Montaigne ou pour une politique de l'appreciation de la bete
Hey, we have placed the reservation for you!
By the way, why not check out events that you can attend while you pick your title.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place the reservation. Kindly try again later.
Are you sure you want to remove the book from the shelf?
L'animal chez Michel de Montaigne ou pour une politique de l'appreciation de la bete
Do you wish to request the book?
L'animal chez Michel de Montaigne ou pour une politique de l'appreciation de la bete
Please be aware that the book you have requested cannot be checked out. If you would like to checkout this book, you can reserve another copy
We have requested the book for you!
Your request is successful and it will be processed during the Library working hours. Please check the status of your request in My Requests.
Oops! Something went wrong.
Looks like we were not able to place your request. Kindly try again later.
Journal Article
L'animal chez Michel de Montaigne ou pour une politique de l'appreciation de la bete
2024
Overview
Si la Renaissance n'explore pas a fond ni souvent la theorie de l'intelligence animale, l'essai L'apologie de Raymond Sebond de Michel de Montaigne est une exception qui surprend le lecteur de jadis et d'aujourd'hui par l'analyse originale de ce sujet capital. En demantelant la croyance--deja bien etablie au XVIe siecle--que l'etre humain detient la raison et la verite absolue, l'auteur demontre que l'humain n'est pas aussi sage que sa presomption le mene a croire et que l'animal n'est pas aussi sot et insense que nous aimons croire. Ainsi reussit-il a relativiser la hierarchie etablie entre les deux categories de creatures qui se trouveraient plutot dans une continuite que dans une division ou une separation intransigeante. Although Renaissance thought did not explore the question of animal intelligence either thoroughly or often, Michel de Montaigne's essay, The Apology of Raymond Sebond, with its original analysis of this topic, represents an exception as surprising today as it was for readers of the time. In dismantling the belief--already well established in the sixteenth century--that human beings possess reason and absolute truth, Montaigne demonstrates that they are not as wise as they presume to be and that animals are not as dumb and senseless as we like to think. He thus succeeds in relativizing the established hierarchy between the two categories of creatures, which appear situated on a continuum rather than divided by a strict separation.
Publisher
Renaissance et Reforme
Subject
