MontaigneIn Montaigne: Life without Law, originally published in French in 2014 and now translated for the first time into English by Paul Seaton, Pierre Manent provides a careful reading of Montaignes three volume work Essays. Although Montaignes writings resist easy analysis, Manent finds in them a subtle unity, and demonstrates the philosophical depth of Montaignes reflections and the distinctive, even radical, character of his central ideas. To show