Can I read Montaigne in Barn Boots : an Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy on EtoBox?

Montaigne in Barn Boots : an Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy by Perry, Michael, 1964- author is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Montaigne in Barn Boots : an Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy about?

The beloved memoirist and bestselling author of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons hes learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne. "The journey began on a gurney," writes Michael Perry, describing the debilitating kidney stone that led him to discover the essays of Michel de Montaigne. Reading the philosopher in a manner he equates to chickens pecking at scrapsincluding those eye-blinking moments when the bird gobbles something too big to swallowPerry attempts to learn what he can (good and bad) about himself as compared to a long-dead French nobleman who began speaking Latin at the age of two, went to college instead of kindergarten, worked for kings, and once had an audience with the Pope. Perry "matriculated as a barn-booted bumpkin who still marks a second-place finish in the sixth-grade spelling bee as an intellectual pinnacle . . . and once said hello to Merle Haggard on a golf cart." Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channel

Who reads Montaigne in Barn Boots : an Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy?

Author

Perry, Michael, 1964- author

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780062230560

Category

philosophy

Subjects

History, Biography, Fiction

Rating

4.3 / 5 (19 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14