Montaigne, la Méditerranée et les différences culturelles

Regarded as a thinker who developed a penetrating reflection on the peoples of the New World, Montaigne is no less attentive to the balance of power and cultural constellations of the Mediterranean. This article shows, on the one hand, that the Mediterranean world appears in Montaigne as a configuration of differences, transgressions, cultural mediators and, on the other hand, that the discovery of the New World spurs him to position the Mediterranean within a wider context.