At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live and Humanly Possible Sarah Bakewell. Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Ga...show more
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Honestly brilliant. I've never read a more engaging and anecdote-filled book on philosophical history.
Though I majored in Philosophy, my professors spent little time on the Existentialist thinkers. Perhaps it was not their area of expertise, or it may have been out of fashion, or some other reason. What I missed out on is diligently surmised by Sarah Bakewell in an engaging and thought provoking journey through history and life’s greatest mysteries.
Though tiny compared to the works of the subjects covered within, Bakewell manages to present a ...read more
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