Robert Zaretsky

Robert Zaretsky is a literary biographer and historian of France. He is the author of many books, including A Life Worth Living: Albert Camus and the Quest for Meaning and Boswell’s Enlightenment. Zaretsky is the history editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books, a regular columnist for The Forward, and a frequent contributor to The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and Foreign Policy.

Simone Weil’s Radical Conception of Attention

Robert Zaretsky on the Philosophy of Negative Effort

March 9, 2021 By Robert Zaretsky

The Unlikely Friendship Between a Philosopher and an Empress

When Catherine the Great Met Denis Diderot

February 22, 2019 By Robert Zaretsky

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