There's a bit in the part of the book where you talk about Montagnu. You say that George Eliot said that reading fiction increases empathy. I wondered what your thoughts were on that and what is where I suppose? Well, as far as my thoughts, it's, there's actually been scientific studies that have tried to establish whether this is true or not. And also it depends what you read, you know, whether reading kind of trashy fiction or reading very high literature makes any difference.
This week on the Penguin Podcast, Isy Suttie is joined by award-winning author and professor, Sarah Bakewell.
Sarah joins us to discuss her latest work of nonfiction, Humanly Possible: seven hundred years of humanist freethinking, inquiry, and hope
Isy and Sarah also discuss Humanism and religion, finding beauty in the complexity of the world, a brief history of human dissection, and the writing of Michel de Montaigne.
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