Michel de Montaigne has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but never thought of as a philosophical original. This book is the first to treat him as a serious thinker in his own right, taking as its point of departure Montaigne's description of himself as "an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." This major reassessment of a much admired but also greatly underestimated thinker is for historians of philosophy and scholars in comparative literature, French studies and the history of ideas.
Michel de Montaigne has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but never thought of as a philosophical original. This book is the first t...
Following Fox-Genovese s lifelong discourse concerning the individual and the community, Volume 4, Explorations and Commitments: Religion, Faith, and Culture, contains twenty-five essays that document her migration from a secular historian s understanding of religion to a view of faiths informed by her conversion to Roman Catholicism. Throughout her journey, Fox-Genovese firmly asserted that the church offered past and present protection to culture against the excesses of modernity by advocating the sanctity of life, preserving the importance of the family, and respecting genuine community....
Following Fox-Genovese s lifelong discourse concerning the individual and the community, Volume 4, Explorations and Commitments: Religion, Faith, and ...
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....
Montaigne s Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. Ann Hartle s Montaigne and the Origins of Moder...
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...
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 Philo...