At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (702 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1536617474 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-08 |
| Language | : | English |
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Four Stars A delightful 'being in the moment' as if I was listening to various philosophers' ideas developing around me.. Fred said great book-earlier than expected. I received this much earlier than expected. It's in great condition. The book is insightful and informative.. "This is an utterly brilliant tour de force" according to Book Buffy. Heidegger and Husserl made understandable? With humor, lightness, insight, empathy? If Ms.Bakewell can accomplish this ---- which she does ----- imagine how accessible and lovable (yes LOVABLE!!) she can make Sartre, Camus, Merleau-Ponty, et. al.! I don't include Simone de Beauvoir in that list because she was always accessible to the non-academic. This is an utterly brilliant tour de force. Witty, insightful, expansive perspective on an era and its intellectuals that should not be missed.
She brings wry humor to her subjects’ foibles but is clear-eyed in describing their more substantive failings. The author offers fascinating insights into the cultural impact of existentialism on the English-speaking world.” —Andrew Hussey, The Guardian “Bakewell’s prose remains lucid and warm no matter how challenging the ideas she’s dissecting. Bakewell combines confident handling of difficult philosophical concepts with a highly enjoyable writing style. Bakewell is brilliant at describing her philosophers’ sensibilities but doesn’t often present them mid-action. And there is certainly a sense of the philosophers as embodied people, moving in a peopled
Bakewell lives in London, where she teaches creative writing at City University and catalogues rare book collections for the National Trust. SARAH BAKEWELL had a wandering childhood in Europe, Australia and England. . After studying at the University of Essex, she was a curator of early printed books at Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time wr
From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the 20th century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate encounters - fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships - and a vital 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.. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as existentialism. Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. "You see," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!" It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate phenomenology into his own French humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. Featuring not only philosophers but also playwrights, anthropologists,