How did this happen?
The first overly simplistic answer is that it’s Montaigne’s fault.
It’s an overly simplistic answer, but its a good place to start because there is some truth to it. The Storey’s portrait of Montaigne helps us to understand why we are restless because Montaigne is one of the inventors and popularizers of the notion of the modern self…
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