{"id":1152,"date":"2013-08-25T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=1152"},"modified":"2013-08-25T07:00:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-25T11:00:41","slug":"montaigne-what-do-i-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2013\/08\/25\/montaigne-what-do-i-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Montaigne: What do I know?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment2814\" style=\"width: 450px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/08\/montaigne.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment2814\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2814\" height=\"260\" width=\"440\" title=\"montaigne\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2013\/08\/montaigne.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/08\/montaigne.jpg 440w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2013\/08\/montaigne-300x177.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 440px) 100vw, 440px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment2814\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533 \u2013 1592)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Relating to CC201&#8217;s study of Montaigne is an article by Liam Julian of <em>The Weekly Standard<\/em>,\u00a0discussing the\u00a0<em>Essays<\/em>. Here is an extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Begun in 1572, the <em>Essays<\/em> is Montaigne\u2019s 20-year examination  of his own life, and not the product of that examination, either, but  the examination itself. It contains more than a hundred essays and some  half-million words, and discusses idleness, cruelty, experience,  philosophy, smells, cannibalism, friendship, education, children, death,  sex, happiness, and more through the author\u2019s experiences and  ruminations on them. Here Montaigne seeks truth: <em>Que s\u00e7ais-je<\/em>?\u2014What  do I know?\u2014was his adage. It is through this autobiographical quest for  truth, undertaken in part by placing on trial his own actions and  beliefs, that Montaigne begins to know himself\u2014and we, his readers,  begin to know him, too.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the full article, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/158V23a\">bit.ly\/158V23a<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Relating to CC201&#8217;s study of Montaigne is an article by Liam Julian of The Weekly Standard,\u00a0discussing the\u00a0Essays. Here is an extract: Begun in 1572, the Essays is Montaigne\u2019s 20-year examination of his own life, and not the product of that examination, either, but the examination itself. It contains more than a hundred essays and some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[3915,36968,425,4876,48436,4280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2815,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1152\/revisions\/2815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}