At the existentialist café freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others

"From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited account of one of the twentieth century's major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it. Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are t...

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Main Author: Bakewell, Sarah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Other Press, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sir, what a horror, existentialism!
  • To the things themselves
  • The magician from Messkirch
  • The they, the call
  • To crunch flowering almonds
  • I don't want to eat my manuscripts
  • Occupation, liberation
  • Devastation
  • Life studies
  • The dancing philosopher
  • Croisés comme ça
  • The eyes of the least favoured
  • Having once tasted phenomenology
  • The imponderable bloom.