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
New York : Other Press, [2016]
Format: Book
Description: 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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.
Subjects:
Existentialism.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
Existentialism.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
ISBN:
9781590514887
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-421) and index.