At the existentialist cafe
Subtitle: freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvior, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and others
Publisher: Other Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781590514887
Description: 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.