Angry intelligences, who want the world to fit into systems, hate Montaigne. So do the finger-wagging proselytisers. Four people with extremely proper accents discuss the inventor of the essay.
At around the 25-minute mark there’s an interesting distinction between Montaigne and other essayists, including Hazlitt, Orwell, Boswell, and Johnson.
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