The Essays

by Michel de Montaigne

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Montaigne invented the essay form in the 1580s by using himself as his subject matter. His wide-ranging, self-questioning meditations on fear, idleness, cruelty, friendship, and experience remain startlingly modern.

Published:: 1580
Pages:: 1344

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Montaigne's Essays are described as "at the center of it all" for the chapter on Montaigne. Holiday prefers the Penguin Classics edition and names "On the Cannibals", "On Idleness", "On Fear", "On Educating Children", and "On Experience" as favourites.

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Montaigne's Complete Essays (Donald Frame translation) is listed in Flow's References. Csikszentmihalyi treats Montaigne as an early model of someone using writing as a tool for ordering consciousness and cultivating the self.

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