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History of Ideas: Montaigne
Past Present Future
The Importance of an Essay
The essay is the open-ended form of writing, including political writing. Montaigne wrote about nothing and he wrote about everything. The experience of reading this essay is like going on a much longer trip. It's book length, maybe 170 plus pages in translation. And it has a pretty off-putting title - an apology for Raymond Se Bon.
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