Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher

Author/Contributor(s):	Hartle, Ann
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Date:	07/16/2007
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.