Sarah Bakewell was a bookseller and a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart, The English Dane, and the best-selling How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to writing, she now teaches in the Masters of Studies in Creative Writing at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. She lives in London.
Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. 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. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism.
Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists’ story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. 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.
《爱情、死亡、自由与革命…存在主义!?太可怕了!!》 1 “思想很有趣,但人更有趣” 1940年代的某一天,法国哲学家加布里埃尔·马塞尔在坐火车时,听到一位女士说: “先生,太可怕了,存在主义!我有个朋友的儿子就是存在主义者,他竟然和一个黑鬼女人住在厨房里!” 从某...
评分存在先于本质,存在主义强调存在本身,所以《存在主义咖啡馆》展示给我们胡塞尔、海德格尔、萨特、波伏娃、梅洛-庞蒂、加缪……,描绘了一幅思想家群像。 存在主义的源头在尼采、陀思妥耶夫斯基。科技革命创造大量物质财富,带来的是工具理性、实证主义,制定一套标准,让世界...
评分世界不会一直坏下去,但是会越来越坏。 尼采哭马与柏拉图的《泰阿泰德篇》 试想一个情景,你在一家餐厅吃饭,满心苦闷,突然抑制不住询问邻桌的人,人生的意义究竟是什么?被你询问的人百分之九十九会将你当做疯子神经病,而如果你遇到了我,或者任何一个了解过存在主义的人,...
评分萨特说,人,被判自由。 我们的一生都笼罩在自由之下,无所遁形。即使生活受到外在条件(体制、出身、性别等种种因素)的限制,我们仍然拥有自由。因为在种种限制之下,仍存在无数个可能性供我们选择。 直到失去意识的前一秒,我们都能够运用与生俱来的自由,从浩如烟海的可能...
评分一对情侣相差六年后,几乎在同一时刻去世,法国都为两个人举行了国葬。 他们一生相伴五十多年,却从未结婚,并且两个人都情人不断,甚至还共享过一个情人。 他们是二十世纪最伟大的两位思想家,倡导了二十世纪最重要的存在主义运动,他们的名字早就被供奉在神坛上,他们是中国...
真正意义上的自由是什么。意味着我们承认自身存在的限制和枷锁。这是一种反认知的勇敢哲学
评分Discerning and witty, 各种让人忍俊不禁的细节
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