Montaigne

Tetel brings new revelations in Montaigne scholarship to this update of his 1974 study. He offers fresh insight into the Renaissance essayist's most important topics, such as ambiguity and paradox, the inadequacy of language and the relationship between people and nature. In an entirely new section, he discusses Montaigne's relation to women and love - a topic unexplored until recently. Tetel shows how Montaigne codified and refined the genre of the essay, and how he has gained stature in recent years not only among students but also among classicists, philosophers, political scientists and historians.