How to Live
Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Other Press · Print & ebook · September 20, 2011
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly Possible How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives.
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- Who it’s for
- A layered, lucid guide to Montaigne that reads like inquiry rather than homework.
- Genres
- Philosophers' Lives, Philosophers & Their Ideas, Philosophy Writing
- Published
- Other Press, September 20, 2011
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly Possible How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—such questions arise in most people’s lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed Renaissance writers, none more than Michel Eyquem de Montaigne, considered by many to be the first truly modern individual.
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He wrote free-roaming explorations of his thoughts and experience, unlike anything written before. More than four hundred years later, Montaigne’s honesty and charm still draw people to him. Readers come to him in search of companionship, wisdom, and entertainment —and in search of themselves. Just as they will to this spirited and singular biography.
Inquiry in Style
A layered, lucid guide to Montaigne that reads like inquiry rather than homework.
Come here for
- essays as a way of thinking
- literary criticism with a usable, handbook feel
Expect
- close reading without the frost
- questions that linger beyond the page
Where it sits
| Philosophers' Lives | 81% |
|---|---|
| Philosophy Writing | 50% |
| Philosophers & Their Ideas | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Philosophers' Lives
- French Literary Criticism
- Philosophy Overviews
- Authors
- Sarah Bakewell
- Publisher
- Other Press
- Published
- September 20, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Philosophers' Lives