Work
Essays (Montaigne)
Overview
The Essays (French: Essais, pronounced [esɛ]) of Michel de Montaigne are contained in three books and 107 chapters of varying length. They were originally written in Middle French and published in the Kingdom of France. Montaigne's stated design in writing, publishing and revising the Essays over the period from approximately 1570 to 1592 was to record "some traits of my character and of my humours." The Essays were first published in 1580 and cover a wide range of topics.
The Essais exercised an important influence on both French and English literature, in thought and style.
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Philosophers who discussed Essays (Montaigne)
- Epicurus
- Heraclitus
- Plutarch
- Michel de Montaigne
- Allan Bloom
- Jacques-André Naigeon
- Raymond of Sabunde
- Eric Hoffer
Related ideas
- Pyrrhonism
- French Wars of Religion
- Latin literature
- Philosophical skepticism
- Plutarch
- Renaissance
- Revelation
- Kingdom of France
- De rerum natura
- The New York Times
- Age of Enlightenment
- William Shakespeare
- Lucretius
- French philosophy
- Michel de Montaigne
- European colonization of the Americas
- Catholic Church
- Huguenots
- Ancient Greek literature
- Certainty
- Romance
- Paul Oskar Kristeller
- Raymond of Sabunde
Place in the tradition
Part of French philosophy.