…Father Joseph, The Grey Eminence, the book I wrote about The Devils of Loudun, and then this long essay I wrote on Maine de Biron. I would like very much to find... another good sort of biographical or historical episode, such as I dealt with in The…

…what I've written, are historical and biographical things. I mean, Grey Eminence and the Devils of Loudun, and the study of Maine de Biron, the variations on a philosopher I mean, these in a sense are all discussions of important, to me, important general…

…as the creature who thinks, the cogito ergo sum, I think therefore I am. And more recently, beginning with the Maine de Biron in the 18th century, and going on with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, and more recently with Bergson, William James, and Dewey,…