Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Montaigne and Nietzsche?; Chapter 2 Scepsis; Scepsis and Freedom: Montaigne's Path in the "Apology"; Nietzsche's Admiration of Scepticism; Nietzsche's Critique of Scepticism; Experimental Scepticism in the Essais; References; Chapter 3 Gay Science and the Practice of Perspectivism; Health and Philosophy: Montaigne's Gay and Sociable Wisdom; Wissenschaft in Nietzsche; From Scepticism to Perspectivism: The Case of Montaigne; Gay Science as the Practice of Perspectivism; Perspectivism, Falsification, and Knowledge; References.

Chapter 4 The DrivesPsychic Multiplicity in Montaigne; From Montaigne's Springs to Nietzsche's Drives; Drive-Analysis in Daybreak; Disposing the Drives?; References; Chapter 5 The Free Spirit; Free Living and Free Thinking in the Essais; The Noble Bound Spirit and the Great Separation; Birdlike Freedom; Returning to the Nearest Things; Discipline and the Master Free Spirit; References; Chapter 6 Overcoming Asceticism and Cultivating the Body; Montaigne's Critique of Asceticism; Montaigne on Sexuality; Nietzsche on Sexuality; Origins of Guilt About Sexuality.

Marriage, Eros and Friendship: Montaigne Versus NietzscheReferences; Chapter 7 Montaigne on Greatness; Eminent Greatness Versus Greatness Without a Name; Greatness and exempla; Greatness's Precondition: Truthfulness About Oneself; The Free Spirit's Greatness: Fidelity to the Master Form; References; Chapter 8 Nietzsche on Greatness; Inferior Modes of Greatness; Presuppositions of the Highest Greatness; Greatness and the Creation of Values; Greatness in a Human Being: Amor Fati; References; Epilogue: Montaigne as Judge of Nietzsche; References; Index.