Sarah Bakewell on Humanism and The Power of Connection

<p>Ryan speaks with Sarah Bakewell about her new book <a href="https://geni.us/DaRRAyO" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope</em></a>, how growing up surrounded by books shaped her philosophical mindset, the philosophical principles that she applies to her life, and more.</p><p>Sarah Bakewell is an author and professor whose work focuses on existentialist philosophy and biographies of adventurers and philosophers. After growing up surrounded by books as the daughter of a bookseller father and a librarian mother, Sarah studied philosophy at the University of Essex, and she later completed a postgraduate degree on Artificial Intelligence. Her work in the 1990s as a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library led her to taking on writing seriously, and she has since published five books, including the lauded <a href="https://geni.us/l0HzZbm" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails</em></a>, and <a href="https://geni.us/hBpBnA" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer</em></a>. Her work can be found on her website: <a href="https://sarahbakewell.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sarahbakewell.com</a>.</p><p>✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: <a href="http://dailystoic.com/dailyemail" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail</a></p><p>🏛 Check out the <a href="https://store.dailystoic.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daily Stoic Store</a> for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.</p><p>📱 Follow us: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Instagram</a>, <a href="https://twitter.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_