Olivier Guerrier is a leading specialist in French Renaissance literary studies, especiallyMontaigne (Rencontre et Renaissance : Les Essais ou le jeu du hasard et de la vérité,2016 ; Quand les poètes feignent : Fantaisie et fiction dans les Essais de Montaigne,2002). His interest in theories of knowledge, truth, and early modern moral writing (inparticular the reception of Plutarch) is sparked by a continued engagement with thethought of Michel Foucault.