French right-wing "nouveau philosophe" Comte-Sponville, a professor at Paris's Sorbonne, had an international success with this not-so-small book, though it's unclear how many buyers have made it all ...
A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues , by André Comte-Sponville. Metropolitan Books, 352 pages, $27.50. Ever had to fight the urge to pick up William J. Bennett’s The Book of Virtues ? Have you ...
A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues, by André Comte-Sponville, trs Catherine Temerson (Vintage, £7.99) Here is something unusual: a work of philosophy which was in the bestseller lists for 14 months ...
Who says the writings of French academics are impenetrably abstruse? People who haven’t read French philosopher and Sorbonne professor André Comte-Sponville, that’s who. His new book, A Small Treatise ...
This work by a former professor at the Sorbonne disproves the view that French philosophy is impossibly opaque. Compte-Sponville deftly demolishes three classical arguments that God must exist.