Essays: "Of Cannibals" (link to reading)
Author: Michel de Montaigne
Date: c. 1580 CE
Location: France
Course Unit: The Other
Context:
"This great French writer deserves to be regarded as a classic, not only in the land of his birth, but in all countries and in all literatures. His Essays, which are at once the most celebrated and the most permanent of his productions, form a magazine out of which such minds as those of Bacon and Shakespeare did not disdain to help themselves; and, indeed, as Hallam observes, the Frenchman’s literary importance largely results from the share which his mind had in influencing other minds." (Montaigne)
Montaigne, Michel de. Essays of Michel de Montaigne. Translated by Charles Cotton, edited by William Carew Hazlitt, 1877. Project Gutenberg, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3600/3600-h/3600-h.htm.
Topics/Questions to Consider While Reading:
How is the concept of the "Other" represented?
Who is the "Other"?
How is the "Other" treated?