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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Paperback)
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (Paperback)
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The Essays of Michel de Montaigne (1877) is a collection of essays
and letters by Michel de Montaigne. Originally published in French
as Essais (1580), this edition was translated by English poet
Charles Cotton in the late-17th century and republished by William
Carew Hazlitt, the grandson of renowned English essayist and critic
William Hazlitt. "No man living is more free from this passion [of
sorrow] than I, who yet neither like it in myself nor admire it in
others, and yet generally the world, as a settled thing, is pleased
to grace it with a particular esteem, clothing therewith wisdom,
virtue, and conscience. Foolish and sordid guise!" In his masterful
essays, Michel de Montaigne eschews the typical distancing required
of the authorial voice in order to investigate public matters
through a personal lens. As the subject of his own musings, he
provides both a stirring self-portrait and an invaluable new voice
that will resonate throughout Western literature. Unlike the
Enlightenment thinkers who would follow in his footsteps, Montaigne
is skeptical of the possibility of human certainty and takes an
ethical stand against the European colonial project in the Americas
and elsewhere. At times serious, at others tongue-in-cheek, his
wide-ranging topics include conscience, politics, sorrow, solitude,
fear, friendship, war, and poetry. The Essays of Michel de
Montaigne were written at a crossroads in human history-between
Renaissance and Enlightenment, Catholicism and Protestantism,
Montaigne argues that to look outward requires we first look
within, and that the quest for happiness requires us to accept what
we cannot know. With a beautifully designed cover and
professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of The Essays of
Michel de Montaigne is a classic of French philosophy reimagined
for modern readers.
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