Montaigne and the immensity of the world : «a perpetual multiplication and vicissitude of forms»
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https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.31.2013.9377Keywords:
end of the world, eternity of the world, forms, vicissitude, Pomponazzi, Le Roy, Varchi,Abstract
One might think that the idea of the immensity of the world appears in Montaigne only as a rhetorical device used with a pedagogical and moral purpose. But an examination of the various pages of the Essays that address the topic shows the extent to which it also has a philosophical dimension. In particular, in the chapter «Des coches», Montaigne takes sides in a rather categorical way in favor of a universe without spatial or temporal limits, populated by an infinity of forms in perpetual vicissitude. The list of alternative images of the world presented on a certain page of the «Apologie de Raymond Sebond» confirms the author’s interest in this approach.
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2013-06-01
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Bayod, J. (2013). Montaigne and the immensity of the world : «a perpetual multiplication and vicissitude of forms». ENDOXA, 1(31), 321–348. https://doi.org/10.5944/endoxa.31.2013.9377
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Archive: Eternity of the World between Middle Ages and Renaissance
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