by Michel de Montaigne · 1001 NUITS · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782842054878
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«Des Cannibales» is the essay by Michel de Montaigne, published by 1001 NUITS in paperback (62 pages, in French).
Montaigne uses the testimony of a member of the French expedition in Brazil (1555-1557) to contrast European civilization with the cultures of the New World. For Montaigne, each people calls barbarism what is not of their custom, and European torture can be more cruel than indigenous cannibalism. The essay inverts the moral hierarchy.
It comes from Montaigne's Essais, book I. It forms number 290 of the La Petite Collection series, with a translation into modern French by Séverine Auffret and an epilogue by Jérôme Vérain.
It will interest readers of philosophy and history, as well as students approaching the classics of sixteenth-century French thought.
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.
