At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others / Sarah Bakewell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bakewell, Sarah, 1963- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Existentialism.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy--France--History--20th century.

Philosophy.

Philosophers--France--Biography.

Philosophers.

History.

France.

Genre:

Biographies.

History.

Physical Description:

439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Other Press, [2016]

Summary:

Paris, 1933. Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse-- and ignite a movement, creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism: Existentialism. Interweaving biography and philosophy, Bakewell provides an investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.

Contents:

Sir, what a horror, existentialism!

To the things themselves

The magician from Messkirch

The they, the call

To crunch flowering almonds

I don't want to eat my manuscripts

Occupation, liberation

Devastation

Life studies

The dancing philosopher

Croisés comme ça

The eyes of the least favoured

Having once tasted phenomenology

The imponderable bloom.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-421) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bakewell, Sarah, author. At the existentialist café.

ISBN:

9781590514887

1590514882

OCLC:

933863567

Online:

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