Et c’est une obsession chez Montaigne, un fil conducteur de sa pensée. Face aux dysfonctionnements de la société prise dans son ensemble, il n’y a d’autre issue que la recherche introspective, et ceci c’est peut être le début de l’humanisme moderne. Ainsi,

Culture depends for its very existence on leisure, and leisure, in its turn, is not possible unless it has a durable and consequently living link with the cultus, with divine worship.

What was needed, he felt, was not high moral or theological ideals, but a deeply critical form of cultural history or ‘genealogy’ that would uncover the reasons why we humans are as we are, and how we came to be that way. For him, all philosophy could even be redefined as a form of psychology, or history. He believed that every great philosopher ac