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Essays of Michel de Montaigne

Essays of Michel de Montaigne

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ISBN10: 154529688X
ISBN13: 9781545296882
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Apr 10 2017
Pages: 744
Weight: 2.15
Height: 1.48 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Montaigne's stated goal in his book is to describe man, and especially himself, with utter frankness and honesty (bonne foi). He finds the great variety and volatility of human nature to be its most basic features, which resonates to the Renaissance thought about the fragility of humans. According to the scholar Paul Oskar Kristeller, the writers of the period were keenly aware of the miseries and ills of our earthly existence. A representative quote is I have never seen a greater monster or miracle than myself.

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