Montaigne's Essays (Illustrated Edition)

Author: Montaigne
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Publish Date: 2006-09-01
Features: Who is Montaigne? A hundred percent classical writer, a 16th-century French thinker and essayist. Unlike many rigid-minded, face-saving preachers of his time, he frankly expressed his inner feelings, adhering to "brave, joyful skepticism." Who is Dalí? A two-hundred percent representative of modernism, a 20th-century Spanish art master. While people cheered for his surreal masterpieces, they also believed Dalí embodied madness—only a madman could be Dalí. This is an impossible combination, an impossible partnership! Is Dalí too mad, or are we too unimaginative? Forcing a 20th-century surreal fruit to grow on the soil of 16th-century humanism. The Essays of Montaigne is the masterpiece of Michel de Montaigne, a famous humanist scholar of the late French Renaissance in the 16th century. The work covers everything, blending book knowledge and life experience, serving as a compendium of 16th-century knowledge and known as "the philosophy of life." With the eyes of a sage, Montaigne examines the myriad faces of the world in his works, reflects and explores humanity and life, affirms human value and desires, criticizes the church and feudalism, advocates breaking classical authority, and is full of humanistic freedom, scientific knowledge, and compassionate thinking.