Michel Montaigne

Montaigne's Essays and Selected Writings: a Bilingual Edition (Bilingual) Michel Montaigne

Jacket Description/Back: Montaigne's self-portrait is both individual and extra ordinarily universal. Unlike the Romantics later, he considered himself typical and sought mankind in himself: 'I set forth a humble and inglorious life; that does not matter. You can tie up all moral philosophy with a common and private life just as well as with a life of richer stuff. Each man bears the entire form of man's estate'(315).

Contributor Bio:  Montaigne, Michel Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance and the originator of the genre of the essay.