How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
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- Feb 16, 2010
- #Philosophy #Biography
Winner of the 2010 National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography
How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions...
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Number of Pages: 416
ISBN: 1590514831
ISBN-13: 9781590514832
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DryEraser @DryEraser
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Dec 17, 2022
- Answered to What was the best book you read in 2022 and the main lesson you took from it?
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How to Live or A Life of Montaigne by Sarah Bakewell. The societal conflict between two wings of some imaginary one dimensional ideological spectrum and the people ("centrists"?) who tried staying above the fray is an old tale.
Phil Treagus-Evans @philtreagus
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Feb 4, 2018
- Curated in THE BEST MODERN PHILOSOPHY BOOKS
Bakewell’s book, oriented around a number of existential questions in Michel Montaigne’s writings, is an extremely powerful way of understanding philosophy’s practical, personal and potentially transformative power. Bakewell’s blend of philosophical meditation, historical survey, and intelligent self-help counteracts philosophy’s bad reputation of being divorced from the history and affairs of the world. If you want to think through philosophy at its most inspiring and essentially helpful, you should read this book.