Sarah Bakewell

Essays of Michel de Montaigne, The Philosophy Classic: A book review by Bob Morris

July 15, 2022

Essays of Michel de Montaigne: The Philosophy Classic With an Introduction by Philippe Desan and Edited by Tom Butler-Bowdon Capstone/A Wiley Brand (July 2022) “The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything.” Aldous Huxley This…

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The Mosaic Principle: A book review by Bob Morris

July 1, 2022

The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career Nick Lovegrove PublicAffairs (November 2016) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman Note: The insights in some (not…

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The wit and wisdom of Michel de Montaigne

September 9, 2018

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) was one of the most significant philosophers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre.There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. These are among…

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Lives of the Philosophers

May 30, 2017

Here is an article written by Amanda Vaill for The American Scholar in which she focuses on the postwar thinkers who stripped the world of preconceptions To read the complete article, check out others, and obtain subscription information, please click here. *     *  …

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The Mosaic Principle: A book review by Bob Morris

November 17, 2016

The Mosaic Principle: The Six Dimensions of a Remarkable Life and Career Nick Lovegrove PublicAffairs (November 2016) “Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. I am large. I contain multitudes.” Walt Whitman I was reminded of Whitman’s…

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Andrew Sullivan on Montaigne: “The Great Blogger”

December 20, 2010

Here is one of my favorite Andrew Sullivan blog posts in which he discusses Sarah Bakewell’s brilliant book, How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer, about Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, author…

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