At the Existentialist Café
Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails
About this book
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
- biography
- biography & autobiography
- biography & autobiography / literary
- biography & autobiography / philosophers
- existentialism
- filosofer
- filosofi
- historia
- history
- literary
- modern philosophy
- movements
- new york times bestseller
- new york times reviewed
- nyt:culture=2016-04-10
- philosophers
- philosophers, biography
- philosophers, france
- philosophy
- philosophy, modern, 20th century
- philosophy / movements / existentialism