by Michel de Montaigne · Folio · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070358205
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«Des cannibales», followed by «La peur de l'autre», is the essay by Michel de Montaigne, published by Folio in paperback (288 pages, in French).
Montaigne reflects on the indigenous peoples of America based on a real encounter in Rouen and contrasts their customs with European ones to question the idea of barbarism and the supposed cultural superiority of his time. The edition adds the anthology «La peur de l'autre», with texts by authors such as Herodotus, Las Casas, Montaigne and Shakespeare on the fear of the other.
Edition from the Folioplus classiques collection, in the «16e siècle» series, with a dossier by Christine Bénévent and an image reading by Alain Jaubert. The original text dates from 1580.
Recommended for high school students and for readers with a level of French interested in 16th-century humanist philosophy.
Michel Eyquem, Seigneur de Montaigne, commonly known as just Michel de Montaigne, was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance. He is known for popularising the essay as a literary genre. His work is noted for its merging of casual anecdotes and autobiography with intellectual insight. Montaigne had a direct influence on numerous writers of Western literature; his Essais contain some of the most influential essays ever written.
