Montaigne in Barn Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy

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The beloved memoirist and bestselling writer of Population: 485 reflects on the lessons he’s learned from his unlikely alter ego, French Renaissance philosopher Michel de Montaigne.

“The journey started 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 scraps—including those eye-blinking moments when the bird gobbles something too big to swallow—Perry attempts to be informed what he can (good and bad) about himself as in comparison to a long-dead French nobleman who started speaking Latin at the age of two, went to college as a substitute 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 moderately 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,” channeled by a midwestern American writing “in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen.” Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on every experience to explore subjects as diverse as faith, race, sex, aromatherapy, and Prince. But he also champions academics and aesthetics, in a book that in the end emerges as a sincere, unflinching take a look at the vital want to be a better person and citizen.

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