Michel de Montaigne#Michel
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#Michel
Michel de Montaigne · 1533–1592
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Who this is
“He retired to a tower at thirty-eight to write about himself, and in doing so invented both a literary form — the essay, the attempt — and a way of being a skeptic that is friendly instead of corrosive.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The honest examination of one ordinary self — doubts, digestion, cat and all — is a complete philosophical project, because every person carries the whole form of the human condition.”
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