![]() ![]() In writing the present book, Sarah Bakewell laid out a series of twenty possible answers that Montaigne would have given to the long-standing question “how to live”. When reading Montaigne’s work, French writer Gustave Flaubert suggested not to “read him as children do, for amusement, nor as the ambitious do, to be instructed. ![]() These essays were filled with humanist ideas and have had a profound impact on future generations. To do this, he wrote a total of 107 essays on “how to live” and published what became his widely popular series of “Essais”. However, his interest was not merely ethical or moral rather, what he sought was a practical solution to the question: “how can we live a good life?”. Indeed, his writings constantly grappled with this issue. Michel de Montaigne, a famous French philosopher and writer of the sixteenth century, was deeply interested in the question: “how to live”. ![]() Here we’d like to unlock Sarah Bakewell’s How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer. ![]()
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