Montaigne's 'Essais' (Hardcover)

1. Introduction 1.1. Biography 1.2. The ‘Living’ Text 2. How to Read a Page of Montaigne: Active Participation of the Reader 3. Intellectual and Philosophical Background 3.1. Renaissance Humanism 3.2. Stoicism and Epicureanism 4. The ‘Apologie de Raimond Sebond’: Religion and Scepticism 5. Political and Ethical Ideas 6. The Classical Literary Background: Knowledge and Imagination 7. The Ambiguous Frontier between Prose and Poetry 8. The Study of the Self: Psychology and Humanity 9. The Art de Vivre: Experience and Aesthetics 10. Montaigne through the Ages