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.
01.书中自有咖啡馆 “又去咖啡馆了?” 我老板看了一眼我手里捧着的书,书是他的。 “是啊,最近天天泡在咖啡馆里,上班回家走路吃饭。” 我回以一个狡黠的眼神。 近几年越来越少有这种沉浸式的阅读感,像潜进深海,《存在主义咖啡馆》可以被看成一本生动的存在主义小史,基本...
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评分前陣子各種書評一直在安利,看瞭個開頭真心一般……作者是有多愛刻薄薩特的長相(用你告訴我們嗎……
评分好看!!A really good booklist and intro! 瞭解時代對瞭解思想真的很有幫助,這本書真的超喜歡瞭!
评分倒是不晦澀 可我本人對哲學不感興趣
评分有很多大時代背景,讀起來不覺得晦澀,故事性很好的幫助理解。
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