Why Are We Restless?

Part 4 - Pascal Rebuts Montaigne

By the end of the Storeys’ chapter on Montaigne, I was ready for a rebuttal from Pascal, whom the Storey’s identify as Montaigne’s “greatest and most critical reader”.

The Storeys recognize that Montaigne’s nonchalant art of living is “more like a self-alienating truncation of our god-seeking souls,” and that his “humanistic pursuit of immanent contentm…