I had purchased copies of Montaigne’s essays from secondhand bookstores before, but I decided to jump into the deep end right away with the 900-page volume of The Complete Essays of Montaigne ...

Montaigne wrote himself, and Camus wrote the first man. Both were tackling these acts of creation — of trying to see the world and themselves; trying to see themselves in their world; trying to see ...

Edited by David Lazar and Patrick Madden. Univ. of Georgia, $32.95 (272p) ISBN 978-0-8203-4815-5 Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592) is the acknowledged creator of the modern essay form, yet today ...

MONTAIGNE: I gather, Professor C, that there are three main reasons for your disapproval of my essays: you dislike my skepticism, my rank in society, and my lack of ambition.

The Philosophy Education Society of America, a 501 (c) (3) charity organization, is the publisher of the Review of Metaphysics. The Society's raison d'etre is to promote definitive contributions to ...

Montaigne didn't strive to create an all-explaining ideology. He didn't seek to conquer the world. Instead, he was amiable, mellow, disciplined, restrained, honest and tolerant.

We learn that essays kept Dillon alive — first reading them, in the form of music reviews, and then writing them. Dread was beaten back with words — “words about any subject at all.” ...

How wrong I have been about this. It has in no way been any easier. Every essay has been left so incomplete — so much left out and so much left unanswered. And yet, they’re all finished. I’ve placed ...