'No one characteristic clasps us purely and universally in its embrace.'
A selection of charming essays from a master of the genre exploring the contradictions inherent to human thought, words and actions.
Autor - francuski pisarz i filozof - swoje poglądy i obserwacje przedstawił w "Próbach", jednym z głównych dzieł renesansowego humanizmu. Zawarte w "Próbach" liczne wątki autobiograficzne stanowią punkt wyjścia do rozważań o charakterze filozoficznym, moralnym, społecznym, obyczajowym. Montaigne to
This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and much more is taken from Schopenhauer's last work, Parerga and Paralipomena, published in 1851.
'So the club rose, the blood came down, and his bitterness and his anguish and his guilt were compounded' Drawing on Baldwin's own experiences of prejudice in an America violently divided by race, these searing essays blend the intensely personal with the political to envisage a better world.
