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Montaigne in barn boots : an amateur ambles through philosophy / Michael Perry.

by Perry, Michael, 1964-

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Perry, Michael, 1964-

Montaigne, Michel de, 1533-1592.

Farmers -- Wisconsin -- Biography.

Farm life -- Wisconsin.

9780062230560 (hc)

0062230565 (hc)

xi, 223 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

Reading like a chicken -- Roughneck intersectionality -- Confound the fool -- Shame -- Marriage -- Amateur aesthetics -- Kidney stone wisdom -- Meditating on faith -- What to do.

Written in a spirit of exploration rather than declaration, Montaigne in Barn Boots is a down-to-earth (how do you pronounce that last name?) look into the ideas of a philosopher "ensconced in a castle tower overlooking his vineyard," channeled by a midwestern American writing "in a room above the garage overlooking a disused pig pen." Whether grabbing an electrified fence, fighting fires, failing to fix a truck, or feeding chickens, Perry draws on each experience to explore subjects as diverse as faith, race, sex, aromatherapy, and Prince. But he also champions academics and aesthetics, in a book that ultimately emerges as a sincere, unflinching look at the vital need to be a better person and citizen.

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