« Qui addit scientiam, addit et laborem » (Ecc. I, 18) : la vanité de savoir dans la littérature sério-comique de la Renaissance
Long before Montaigne wrote his Essays (1580-1592), the vanity of knowledge was an important literary and philosophical theme in the humanist movement, which was prone to check curiosity and to underline its limits. The presence of this theme is all too often ignored, or unconvincingly explained by...
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Institut du Monde Anglophone
2012-09-01
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| Series: | Etudes Epistémè |
| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/episteme/361 |