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Essays

Michel de Montaigne

The founding work of the personal essay, in which Montaigne examines his own mind as the subject of inquiry. His distinction in 'Of Pedantry' between knowledge that is possessed and knowledge that is lived anchors the book's insistence that identity change must be enacted, not merely understood. Book 1 quotes it as the Chapter 6 epigraph.

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