Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher

By Ann Hartle

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521821681
• ISBN13: 9780521821681
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.1"