At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
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| Rating | : | 4.20 (958 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1536617474 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 475 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-04-30 |
| Language | : | English |
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The author lives in London, England. Her book on Michel de Montaigne, How to Live, won numerous awards and became a runaway bestseller in the UK. After studying at the University of Essex, she was a curator of early printed books at Wellcome Library before becoming a full-time writer. SARAH BAKEWELL had a wandering childhood in Europe, Australia and England. Bakewell lives in London,
"Four Stars" according to Celia. 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 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.
Ms. And there is certainly a sense of the philosophers as embodied people, moving in a peopled and thing-filled world. The biographies of most people here intersect with either Sartre’s or Heidegger’s, sometimes both—and each man’s story requires its own telling, which Ms. Her explanation of the mysteries of phenomenology, clear and succinct, is as brilliant as any I’ve heard in a French university classroom. Bakewell combines confident handling of difficult philosophical concepts with a highly enjoyable writing style. Bakewell does fascinatingly.” —The New York Ti
They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "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. From the best-selling au