Nigel Warburton

1 week ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nigel Warburton

Jean-Paul Sartre died in Paris on 15th April, 1980. 50,000 mourners followed his cortège along the Boulevard du Montparnasse to the cemetery. Among them was his soul mate Simone de Beauvoir. They’d met in 1929 when they were students at the École Normale Supérieure. He was 24 and she was 21. For over half a century they were first lovers, then the most intimate of friends, no matter how close they got to other people.

2 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nigel Warburton

Nicolas Bourbaki was a Greek mathematician who later made a living playing cards in Parisian cafes. By the 1950s he had an office with his name on the door at the elite École Normale Supérieure. To date he has published an impressive number of maths textbooks and become an internationally respected scholar, famous for his work on set theory and functional analysis. But Bourbaki doesn’t exist and never has done.

2 weeks ago | yalebooks.co.uk | Nigel Warburton

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3 weeks ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nigel Warburton

The great Viennese art historian and philosopher of art Ernst Gombrich, whose birthday was on March 30, came to England in 1936. Like so many emigré intellectuals of his generation, he was fleeing Hitler. His family was originally Jewish but had converted to Protestantism in the early 20th century. That wouldn’t have bothered the Nazis – from their perspective they were still Jewish. Gombrich left Vienna two years before the Anschluss, with all that would have entailed.

1 month ago | theneweuropean.co.uk | Nigel Warburton

When James Bailey was “unemployed, heartbroken, and questioning his purpose on the planet”, he decided to write to a range of luminaries and ask them what the meaning of life is. Surprisingly, perhaps, he received numerous replies, including from Jane Goodall, Anil Seth, Jimmy Carter, Ranulph Fiennes, Terry Waite, Michael Frayn, Hilary Mantel, Joan Armatrading, and many more.