A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues , by André Comte-Sponville. Metropolitan Books, 352 pages, $27.50. Ever had to fight the urge to pick up William J. Bennett’s The Book of Virtues ? Have you ...

French right-wing "nouveau philosophe" Comte-Sponville, a professor at Paris's Sorbonne, had an international success with this not-so-small book, though it's unclear how many buyers have made it all ...

A Short Treatise on the Great Virtues, by André Comte-Sponville, trs Catherine Temerson (Vintage, £7.99) Here is something unusual: a work of philosophy which was in the bestseller lists for 14 months ...

The perfect antidote to the fiery rhetoric that dominates our current national debate over religion, The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality is the ideal companion to such bestsellers as The God ...

This work by a former professor at the Sorbonne disproves the view that French philosophy is impossibly opaque. Compte-Sponville deftly demolishes three classical arguments that God must exist.