Authors: Michel de Montaigne, Roger Ariew (Translator), Marjorie Glicksman Grene
ISBN-13: 9780872206793, ISBN-10: 0872206793
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Hackett Publishing Co.
Date Published: September 2003
Edition: 1st Edition
The essays of Montaigne (1533-92) offer a haunting and deeply influential picture of Man and his place in the University partly in the form of a self-portrait, arising out of a crisis of melancholy - a pioneering and ruthlessly honest analysis of his own thoughts and habits, feelings and failings. The Apology is a witty defence of a long-forgotten treatise on Natural Theology and a masterpiece of Counter-Reformation and Renaissance argument, and in it Montaigne is ironical and so fair to opposing views that it became a favourite with Deists and free-thinkers also.