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Free Download Douglas I. Thompson, "Montaigne and the Tolerance of Politics"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 019067993X | PDF | pages: 249 | 11.4 mb
At the heart of Montaigne’s Essais lies a political conception of religious tolerance that we have largely forgotten today. In contemporary popular and academic discourse, tolerance of religious and other differences most often appears as an individual ethical disposition or a moral principle of public law. For Montaigne, tolerance is instead a political capacity: the power and ability to negotiate relationships of basic trust and civil peace with one’s opponents in political conflict. Contemporary thinkers often argue that what matters most for tolerance is how we talk to our political opponents: with respect, reasonableness, and civility. For Montaigne, what matters most is not how, but rather that we talk to each other across lines of disagreement. In his view, any effective politics of tolerance requires actors with a sufficiently high tolerance for this political activity.

Free Download Ann Hartle, "Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0810129655, 0810129329 | PDF | pages: 239 | 1.2 mb
Montaigne’s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle’s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable-brought down from the heavens to the street, where it might be engaged in by a wider audience. In the same philosophical act, Montaigne both transforms philosophy and invents "society," a distinctly modern form of association. Through this transformation, a new, modern character emerges: the individual, who is neither master nor slave and who possesses the new virtues of integrity and generosity. In Montaigne’s radically new philosophical project, Hartle finds intimations of both modern epistemology and modern political philosophy.

Free Download Frederic Will, "Montaigne’s Essays"
English | ISBN: 1527500942 | 2023 | 245 pages | PDF | 1491 KB

Free Download Montaigne’s Politics: Authority and Governance in the Essais by Biancamaria Fontana
English | January 23, 2008 | ISBN: 0691131228 | True EPUB | 208 pages | 0.5 MB
Michel de Montaigne (1533-92) is principally known today as a literary figure-the inventor of the modern essay and the pioneer of autobiographical self-exploration who retired from politics in midlife to write his private, philosophical, and apolitical Essais. But, as Biancamaria Fontana argues in Montaigne’s Politics, a novel, vivid account of the political meaning of the Essais in the context of Montaigne’s life and times, his retirement from the Bordeaux parliament in 1570 "could be said to have marked the beginning, rather than the end, of his public career." He later served as mayor of Bordeaux and advisor to King Henry of Navarre, and, as Fontana argues, Montaigne’s Essais very much reflect his ongoing involvement and preoccupation with contemporary politics-particularly the politics of France’s civil wars between Catholics and Protestants.