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Essays: The Philosophy Classic by De Montaigne, Michel
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Capstone Classics Ser.
Essais (Essays), the large collection of short essays by Michel de Montaigne was published in 1580. The essays are a reflection of Montaigne's philosophy, his interests and learning. They describe humans, particularly Montaigne himself, and he expressed his thoughts freely through his essays.His essays ...Show more
Great Ideas: On Solitude by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
For the true bibliophile and design-savvy book lover, here is the next set of Penguin's celebrated Great Ideas series by some of history's most innovative thinkers. Acclaimed for their striking and elegant package, each volume features a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmaker's art. Off ...Show more
Michel De Montaigne: The Complete Works - Essays, Travel Journal, Letters by Michel De Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Everyman's Library Classics Ser.
Humanist, skeptic, acute observer of himself and others, Michel de Montaigne (1533--92) was the first to use the term "essay" to refer to the form he pioneered, and he has remained one of its most famous practitioners. He reflected on the great themes of existence in his wise and engaging writings, his ...Show more
Shakespeare's Montaigne by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking
Shakespeare, Nietzsche once wrote, was Montaigne's best reader. It is a typically brilliant Nietzschean insight, capturing the intimate relationship between the ever-changing record of the mutable self constituted by Montaigne's Essays and Shakespeare's kaleidoscopic register of human character. For all ...Show more
The Complete Essays by Michel Montaigne, de Montaigne Michel
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Classics Ser.
In 1572 Montaigne retired to his estates in order to devote himself to leisure, reading and thinking. There he wrote his constantly expanding 'assays', inspired by ideas he found in the books of his library and his own experience. He discussed subjects as diverse as war-horses and cannibals, poetry and ...Show more
The Complete Works: Essays, Travel Journal, Letters (HB) by Michel de Montaigne; Donald Frame (trans.); Stuart Hampshire (intro)
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Everyman's Library Classics
Describing his collection of Essays as 'a book consubstantial with its author', Montaigne identified both the power and the charm of a work which introduces us to one of the most attractive figures in European literature. A humanist, a sceptic, an acute observer of himself and others, he reflects the gr ...Show more
The Essays by Michel Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking
Reflections by the creator of the essay form, display the humane, skeptical, humorous, and honest views of Montaigne, revealing his thoughts on sexuality, religion, cannibals, intellectuals, and other unexpected themes. Included are such celebrated works as "On Solitude," "To Philosophize Is to Learn Ho ...Show more
The Essays, A selection by Michel Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
To overcome a crisis of melancholy after the death of his father, Montaigne withdrew to his country estates and began to write, and in the highly original essays that resulted he discussed themes such as fathers and children, conscience and cowardice, coaches and cannibals, and, above all, himself. "On ...Show more
What Do I Know?: Essential Essays by Michel de Montaigne
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Category: Critical Thinking
A selection of Michel de Montaigne's most profound, searching essays, in a new translation and stunning hardback edition
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