HyperEssays. : languagehat.com
Geoffrey Pullman,
Languagehat,
Dec 27, 2024
I read the Essays of Michel de Montaigne in 1989 and was moved and influenced by both the form and the content. So I celebrate the current project, Sebastian Biot's HyperEssays, "a project to create a modern and accessible online edition of the Essays of Michel de Montaigne." It's worth noting that the term 'essay' originates from the French 'essai', which means an attempt or a trial. Putting one's beliefs on trial was the whole point of the Essays, an idea that later became the archetypical Cartesian scepticism.
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