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At the Existentialist Café
- 448 pages · about 7 hours
- First published 2016
- 11 editions
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1 About this book
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.
Good for readers who want: history, philosophy, and a true life story.
- History
- Philosophy
- Existentialism
- Biography & autobiography
- Modern Philosophy
- Biography
- Philosophy, modern
- Philosophers, biography
2 About Sarah Bakewell
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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