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History of Ideas: Montaigne
Past Present Future
The Silentest Essayist in the History of Ideas
Montaigne famously said that his subject matter was himself. He was writing the book of himself, and it can look like a kind of retreat or escapism. But essays are not manifestos; they're an attempt to make things better by turning inward.
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