Nietzsche and Montaigne

ISBN-13: 9783319667447 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 294 str.

Robert Miner

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Scepsis

Chapter 2: Gay Science and the Practice of Perspectivism

Chapter 3: The Drives

Chapter 4: The Free Spirit

Chapter 5: Overcoming Asceticism: The Cultivation of the Body

Chapter 6:  Montaigne on Greatness

Chapter 7: Nietzsche on Greatness

Epilogue: Montaigne as Judge of Nietzsche

O autorze

Robert Miner is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. 

Blurb

This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an “attempter.”   In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre: experimental scepticism, gay science, the quest for drives beneath consciousness, the free spirit, the affirmation of sexuality and the body, and the meaning of greatness.

Robert Miner explores these connections in the context of Nietzsche's reverence for Montaigne—a reverence he held for no other author—and asks
what Montaigne would make of Nietzsche. The question arises from Nietzsche himself, who both celebrates Montaigne and includes him among a small number of authors to whose judgment he is prepared to submit.