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Montaigne: A Very Short Introduction provides an overview of Michel de Montaigne’s life, thought, and writing. This VSI situates Montaigne’s influential Essays within his lived experience. Montaigne was a member of the minor aristocracy, a judicial investigator in his youth, and a traveler in later life. He also held the office of mayor and acted as a diplomatic link in war-torn France. Montaigne explored debates and dualities that would inspire future French philosophers, comparing marriage with friendship, solitude with sociability, and the Old World with the New. As a philosopher, he is seen as an early modern skeptic, but his broad-minded approach continues to inspire writers today.

 

Contents:

1 Writing oneself

2 Montaigne’s life: a sketch

3 Learning for living

4 Friendship, family, love

5 Free and sociable solitude

6 America

7 Providential diversity

8 Skeptic

9 Death and the good life