Overview: 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.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,
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