1. Introduction  1.1. Biography  1.2. The ‘Living’ Text  2. How to Read a Page of Montaigne: Active Participation of the Reader  3. Intellectual and Philosophical Background  3.1. Renaissance Humanism  3.2. Stoicism and Epicureanism  4. The ‘Apologie de Raimond Sebond’: Religion and Scepticism  5. Political and Ethical Ideas  6. The Classical Literary Background: Knowledge and Imagination  7. The Ambiguous Frontier between Prose and Poetry  8. The Study of the Self: Psychology and Humanity  9. The Art de Vivre: Experience and Aesthetics  10. Montaigne through the Ages

Dorothy Gabe Coleman