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The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne.(Book review)
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The Cambridge Companion to Montaigne. Ed. by Ullrich Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press. 2005. xvii+247 pp. 45 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.99 [pounds sterling]). ISBN 978-0-521-81953-4 (pbk 978-0-521-52556-5).
The following review focuses on themajor chapters of this book, one of a Cambridge series on philosophers. Ullrich Langer's introduction depicts Montaigne (quoted throughout in translation) as a self-confessed non-philosopher, whose works nevertheless contain philosophical elements. In Chapter 2 Langer discusses political and religious change, ...
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