Montaigne and the Origins of Modern Philosophy /
Montaigne's Essays are rightfully studied as giving birth to the literary form of that name. This book argues that the essay is the perfect expression of Montaigne as what he called "a new figure: an unpremeditated and accidental philosopher." Unpremeditated philosophy is philosophy m...
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Evanston, Illinois :
Northwestern University Press,
[2013]
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Table of Contents:
- Reversing Aristotle
- Sticking to the old ways : Montaigne and sacred tradition
- The philosophical act (I) : judgment
- The philosophical act (II) : ending in experience
- Overcoming natural mastery
- The primacy of the private and the origins of a free society
- The character of the free individual
- Conclusion : the invisibility of philosophy and the light of the good.