Individuality and Print Culture

• Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592): Essais

  • distinction public and private: image of a house
    • "We must reserve a little back-shop, all our own, entirely free, wherein to establish our true liberty."

• Rene Descartes (1596-1650)

  • "cogito ergo sum."

• private library: access to more books in his study and a scholar two generations earlier had in a life of travel.