Title: At the Existentialist Café
Subtitle: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails
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.
Subjects: Philosophers, History, Philosophy, Filosofer, Existentialism, Literary, Historia, Filosofi, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY, Modern Philosophy, Biography, Movements, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, nyt:culture=2016-04-10, New York Times bestseller, New York Times reviewed, Philosophy, modern, 20th century, Philosophers, biography, Philosophers, france