Literary Nonfiction. Philosophy. Brimming with insights and startling perspectives on the most diverse aspects of contemporary life--from marriage and parenting to love, friendship, and the logic of the everyday--this exquisite collection of aphorisms and essays, is bound to make its readers stop and reevaluate many a truth and commonplace we live by. Philosopher, literary critic, and translator Julien David whose real name is Michael Eskin, was educated at the University of Munich, the Institut Catholique de Paris, Concordia College, and Rutgers University. PHILOSOPHICAL FRAGMENTS OF A CONTEMPORARY LIFE is Michael Eskin's first publication under the pen name Julien David. He lives in New York City with his wife and three sons.

Author City: NEW YORK, NY USA

Having published widely on philosophical, ethical, and literary subjects, Michael Eskin is the author of Nabokov's Version of Pushkin's Eugene Onegin: Between Version and Fiction; Ethics and Dialogue in the Works of Levinas, Bakhtin, Mandel'shtam, and Celan; and Poetic Affairs: Celan, Grünbein, Brodsky. He has also published a book of aphorisms, Philosophical Fragments of a Contemporary Life, under the pseudonym Julien David. He lives in New York with his wife and their three children and lectures regularly across the United States and Europe on subjects as diverse as poetry, philosophy, and cultural prejudice (most recently as a guest of the United States Consul General in Germany).