Frisks, Skips and Jumps
Colin Burrow: Montaigne’s Tower, 6 November 2003
Michel de Montaigne: Accidental Philosopher
by Anne Hartle.
Cambridge, 303 pp., £45, March 2003,0 521 82168 1 Show More
by Anne Hartle.
Cambridge, 303 pp., £45, March 2003,
“... significant a figure in the history of philosophy as Descartes. There is still some way to go, as Anne Hartle’s book indicates. It presents Montaigne as a philosopher opposed to any simple form of foundationalist rationalism. Hartle sees him rather as an Oakeshottian sceptic, who believes that philosophy should be ... ”
