Prof. Philippe Desan has spent most of his academic career studying the life and work of French Renaissance writer Michel de Montaigne. When he set out to write his definitive biography, Montaigne: A ...

When Michel de Montaigne retired to his family estate in 1572, aged 38, he tells us that he wanted to write his famous Essays as a distraction for his idle mind. He neither wanted nor expected people ...

Michel de Montaigne was a philosopher of the French Renaissance (16th century) whose “Essays” have inspired readers for more than 500 years. His work influenced many important philosophers and writers ...

LIKE MANY people, as he grew older Michel de Montaigne paid close attention to the workings of his body. He began to feel the cold in his bones; his servants brought him clothes at night “to warm my ...

A French museum said Wednesday that a tomb opened this week in an unprecedented operation "probably" contains the remains of the great 16th-century philosopher Michel de Montaigne, but that further ...

Matthew Sharpe receives funding from the Australian Research Council to look at the history of the idea of philosophy as a way of life. It’s fascinating to reflect on the different stories that ...

IT was a carroty-haired tramp who first interested me in reading Montaigne’s Essays, and this he accomplished not so much by pure eloquence as by the law of contradiction. If he had not said — but ...

When I became a dedicated reader of the 16th-century French writer Montaigne, in 2005, I was new to writing and relatively new to motherhood, with a 3-year-old and a newborn, and about to publish my ...

For a long time, the “Montaigne” most mentioned on public radio has been former Morning Edition host Renee Montagne. But long before Renee Montagne started appearing on the airwaves, there was another ...