How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
Sarah Bakewell explores the life and ideas of Michel de Montaigne through twenty attempts to answer a fundamental question: how should we live? Combining biography, literary interpretation, and philosophy, this accessible book considers why Montaigne’s reflections continue to speak to readers confronting the possibilities and challenges of everyday life.
About This Book
Sarah Bakewell’s How to Live examines the life and thought of Michel de Montaigne through a central question: how should we live?
Organized around twenty attempts at an answer, the book considers Montaigne’s reflections on experience, judgment, habit, friendship, work, and mortality.
Blending biography with literary and philosophical discussion, Bakewell presents Montaigne as a writer whose questions remain relevant beyond his own time.
The result is an accessible exploration of a major thinker and of the continuing challenge of shaping a life with awareness and purpose.
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