A deeply moving exploration of the relationship between thinking and drawing, from the author of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing

The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza (a.k.a. Bento) spent the most intense years of his short life writing. He also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notesbut no drawings.

For years, without knowing what its pages might hold, John Berger has imagined finding Bentos sketchbook, wanting to see the drawings alongside his surviving words. When one day a friend gave him a beautiful virgin sketchbook, Berger said, This is Bentos! and he began to draw, taking inspiration from the philosophers vision.

In this beautifully illustrated book, Berger uses the imaginative space opened up in this experiment to explore politics, storytelling, Spinozas life and times, and the process of drawing itself.

Paperback | 176 pages | 5.55″ x 8.26″