Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
This volume of the Harvard Classics brings together essays from France, Germany and Italy, each with a short introductory note on its author. It opens with five essays by Montaigne, among them That to Philosophize Is to Learn How to Die, Of the Education of Children and Of Friendship, followed by Sainte-Beuve's portrait of Montaigne and his essay What Is a Classic? Ernest Renan's The Poetry of the Celtic Races comes next, then Lessing's The Education of the Human Race, Schiller's Letters upon the Aesthetic Education of Man and Kant's Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals. Mazzini's Byron and Goethe closes the collection, a broad introduction to European thought on education, art and ethics. The full text is available to read online in your browser on Vinteuil, and the first chapter is free.
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