Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy

ISBN-13: 9780810129320 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 288 str.

Ann Hartle

Opis

Montaigne s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle s Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy argues that the essay is actually the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy made sociable brought down from the heavens to the street, where it might be engaged in by a wider audience. In the same philosophical act, Montaigne both transforms philosophy and invents "society," a distinctly modern form of association. Through this transformation, a new, modern character emerges: the individual, who is neither master nor slave and who possesses the new virtues of integrity and generosity. In Montaigne s radically new philosophical project, Hartle finds intimations of both modern epistemology and modern political philosophy."