The Shock of Recognition by Barry Jones

The Shock of Recognition by Barry Jones

Author:Barry Jones
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2015-11-06T16:00:00+00:00


We should note that games are not games for children but are to be judged as the most serious things they do.

If our souls do not move with a better motion and if we do not have a healthier judgment, then I would just as soon that our pupil should spend his time playing tennis: at least his body would become more agile.

In an introductory note ‘To the Reader’ (p. lix in the Penguin Classics edition), Montaigne sets out his objective clearly:

I myself am the subject of this book (‘Je suis moi-même la matiêre de mon livre’): it is not reasonable that you should employ your leisure on a topic so frivolous and so vain.



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