Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher
"Michel de Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, has always been acknowledged as a great literary figure but has never been thought of as a philosophical original. This book is the first to treat Montaigne 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."" "Whereas previous commentators have treated Montaigne's Essays as embodying a skepticism harking back to classical sources, Ann...
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This book treats Montaigne as a serious thinker in his own right.
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.
