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The New York Times bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A New York Times Notable Book “A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important, readable and worth reading. . . Bakewell is wide-ranging, witty and compassionate.” –Wall ... Read More about Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

The New York Times bestseller • One of Barack Obama's Favorite Books of 2023 • A New York Times Notable Book “A book of big and bold ideas, Humanly Possible is humane in approach and, more important, readable and worth reading. . . Bakewell is wide-ranging, witty and compassionate.” –Wall ... Read More about Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live and Humanly Possible Sarah Bakewell.Paris, 1933: three contempora... Read More about At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography, from the author of Humanly PossibleHow 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 liv... Read More about How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer

Pocos libros han recibido recientemente tantos elogios como esta biograf a de Montaigne.Se trata de una historia de la vida de Montaigne y de su obra escrita, centrada siempre en hallar la respuesta a la gran pregunta que plantea el libro, c mo vivir la vida en's . Sarah Bakewell cuenta la vida de M... Read More about Cómo Vivir. Una Vida Con Montaigne: En Una Pregunta Y Veinte Intentos de Respuesta

A New York Times "Ten Best Books of 2016"From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century’s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it   Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-... Read More about At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others