Ann Hartle

Michel de Montaigne

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book treats Montaigne as a serious thinker in his own right.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 661g
• ISBN-13: 9780521821681
• ISBN-10: 0521821681
• Artikelnr.: 33612678

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Note on the texts
Introduction
Part I. A New Figure: 1. 'That is where he got it!': Montaigne's caprices and the humours of ancient philosophy
2. Bending and stretching the categories of traditional metaphysics
3. The essay as philosophical form
Part II. Accidental Philosophy: 4. The circular dialectic of self-knowledge
5. 'What it means to believe'
6. The latent metaphysics of accidental philosophy
Part III. The Character of the Accidental Philosopher: 7. Montaigne's character: the great-souled man without pride
8. What he learned in the nursery: accidental moral philosophy and Montaigne's reformation
9. Christianity and the limits of politics
Notes
Works cited
Index.