Sarah Bakewell, our premier popularizer of the history of philosophy, just keeps going bigger. Her breakthrough 2010 smash, “How to Live,” was an innovative exercise in writing the life of a ...

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Amelia Lupascu, 16, from Adamstown Community College in Dublin has won the top prize at 'The Eurekas', an annual physics ...

The confluence of these crises should make Bakewell’s defense of this tradition a necessity. That her book doesn’t feel terribly urgent perhaps speaks to a fundamental weakness within humanism.

Sarah Bakewell’s sweeping new survey of the philosophical tradition, “Humanly Possible,” says that putting your faith in human behavior means confronting complacency and nihilism — but it ...

Existentialism: Author Sarah Bakewell on the lives and legacy of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. The pair's colloboration made them the Napoleon and Joséphine of 20th-century ...

Former bookseller Sarah Bakewell talks to Caroline Sanderson about her latest book, At the Existentialist CafeÃÅ (Chatto), which travels back in time to Paris’ Rue du Montparnasse in order ...

Sarah Bakewell, who’s particularly good at situating Montaigne in his period and place, offers a clear summary of the religious strife that raged during his life, including the infamous Massacre ...

Though Sarah Bakewell does not put it so bluntly, the question of "life" and "philosophy" is what sets At the Existentialist Caf ...

"How to Live" is a delight, and a perfect counter for our petty political season. Montaigne, the reluctant mayor of Bordeaux, navigated his perilous, bloody era through a shrewd mix of calm ...