Robert Zaretsky is a professor in the Honors College at the University of Houston. He is the author of several books, most recently Victories Never Last: Reading and Caregiving in a Time of Plague (University of Chicago Press, 2022).
Robert Zaretsky
Articles
It’s All Greek and yet Frighteningly Comprehensible.
Robert Zaretsky and Michael Barnes consider Thucydides’s “History of the Peloponnesian War.”
Humanism Is a Frail Craft: On Sarah Bakewell’s “Humanly Possible”
Robert Zaretsky reviews Sarah Bakewell’s “Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope.”
Or Better Worse: On Michael Ignatieff and Consolation
Robert Zaretsky is invigorated by Michael Ignatieff’s “On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times.”
“Is Not a Face Quite Different from a Mask?”: Molière at 400
Robert Zaretsky unmasks the continuing relevance of Molière.
More to Admire: On Laura Marris’s Translation of Albert Camus’s “The Plague”
Robert Zaretsky admires the aesthetic and moral clarity of Laura Marris’s new translation of Camus’s “The Plague.”
Pardonne-Moi: On Vladimir Jankélévitch and the Philosophy of Forgiveness
Robert Zaretsky reflects on the life and work of French philosopher Vladimir Jankélévitch, and the supernatural nature of true forgiveness.
Crystallized Desire: On Stendhalian Love
Robert Zaretsky explores love in the time of the pandemic through the life and ideas of Stendhal.
Letters from the Heart
Simone de Beauvoir’s advice to the lovelorn.
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