Montaigne et l’hédonisme antique à la fin de la Renaissance Discours et pensée du plaisir

This work deals with the reflection about pleasure in late French Renaissance, especially in Montaigne’s Essais, considering the ancient Hedonistic schools of philosophy, i.e Cyrenaics and Epicureanism. In contrast with the common view, often distorting the discourses and the lives of the theorists of pleasure, Montaigne distinguishes himself by questioning the link of pleasure in relation to morals and examining the experience of pleasure as an experience of the self.