Sarah Bakewell Quote

The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty called Montaigne a writer who put a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.


p. 37 - How to Live, or, A Life of Montaigne in one Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer (2010)


The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty called Montaigne a writer who put a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty called Montaigne a writer who put a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty called Montaigne a writer who put a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

The philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty called Montaigne a writer who put a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.