In 2011, Dan Conley started, and completed, My Montaigne Project: a series of 107 essays, one a day for 107 days, each inspired by one of Montaigne's 107 Essais. The project almost, but not quite, landed him a book deal; this week he brought it back to the web with a newly designed website. He's writing some new essays; intends to focus, among other things, on Montaigne's Continue Reading …
Guardian.UK Reviews Bakewell on Montaigne
In this Guardian.UK review of Sarah Bakewell's How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer Nicholas Lezard characterizes the disorganized genius of Montaigne: So, just because Montaigne doesn't have a plan, this doesn't mean he can't be ranked with the great philosophers, because what he is doing is trying to teach us how to live, how Continue Reading …