Tag: Michel de Montaigne

  • Nation & World

    A National Book Award

    “The Swerve: How the World Became Modern,” Harvard Professor Stephen Greenblatt’s book describing how an ancient Roman philosophical epic helped pave the way for modern thought, has won the National Book Award for nonfiction.

    2 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Through artistry, toleration

    “On the Nature of Things,” a poem written 2,000 years ago that flouted many mainstream concepts, helped the Western world to ease into modernity, author Stephen Greenblatt recounted.

    5 minutes