Nietzsche and Montaigne [Hardcover]

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 Montaignea reverence he held for no other authorand 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.??
Chapter 1: Scepsis

Chapter 2: Gay Science and the Practice of Perspectivism

Chapter 3: The Drives

Chapter 4: The Free Spirit

Chapter 5:?Overcoming Asceticism: The Cultivation of the Body

Chapter 6:??Montaigne on Greatness

Chapter 7: Nietzsche on Greatness

Epilogue: Montaigne as Judge of Nietzsche

Robert Miner is Professor of Philosophy at Baylor University.?

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 thelóÊ