Wall Street Journal Reviews James Miller’s “Examined Lives”

Gary Rosen of the Wall Street Journal summarizes Examined Lives: From Socrates to Nietzsche,, a collection of biographical sketches of historians by intellectual historian James Miller.

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The book sounds like it focuses on the personal foibles of its subjects (which only get as recent as Nietzsche: no Heidegger as Nazi talk here). As one would expect from an "intellectual historian," it's going to provide a good overview and/or supplement to the more content-oriented material covered on our podcast, but may or may not really further your understanding of that content, i.e. the philosophical ideas themselves.

-Mark Linsenmayer