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Author:

Bakewell, Sarah, author.

Title:

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.

Publisher:

Other Press,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Existentialism.
Philosophy, Modern--20th century.
Philosophy--France--History--20th century.
Philosophers--France--Biography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Summary:

The best-selling author of How to Live presents a spirited account of the Existentialist intellectual and philosophical movement of the 1930s while sharing insights into the contributions of key revolutionary thinkers and the movement's present-day legacy.

ISBN:

1590514882 (hardback)
9781590514887 (hardback)

LCCN:

2015047824

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