Nietzsche and Montaigne

This book is a historically informed and textually grounded study of the connections between Montaigne, the inventor of the essay, and Nietzsche, who thought of himself as an "attempter." In conversation with the Essais, Nietzsche developed key themes of his oeuvre: experimental scepticism, gay science, the quest for drives beneath consciousness, the free spirit, the affirmation of sexuality and the body, and the meaning of greatness.
Robert Miner explores these connections in the context of Nietzsche's reverence for Montaigne-a reverence he held for no other author-and asks what Montaigne would make of Nietzsche. The question arises from Nietzsche himself, who both celebrates Montaigne and includes him among a small number of authors to whose judgment he is prepared to submit.

About the author

Robert Miner is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University. 

Summary

Fills a gap in the literature on Nietzsche and Montaigne


Contains novel readings of chapters in the Essais


Satisfies the needs of both Nietzsche scholars and Montaigne scholars

Product details

• Authors: Robert Miner
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Content: Book
• Product form: Hardback
• Publication date: 01.01.2017
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works
• EAN: 9783319667447
• ISBN: 978-3-31-966744-7
• Pages: 294
• Illustrations: XII, 294 p.
• Dimensions (packing): 15.9 x 22.1 x 2.1 cm
• Weight (packing): 530 g
• Subjects: B, Literaturwissenschaft: 1800 bis 1900, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Religion and Philosophy, Literature, Modern—19th century, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Continental Philosophy, Nietzsche;montaigne;Essais;gay science;perspectivism