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100	1		_aBakewell, Sarah,
245	1	0	_aAt the existentialist cafeÌ : _bfreedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others / _cby Sarah Bakewell.
264		1	_aNew York : _bOther Press, _c2016.
300			_a439 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aParis, 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. 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 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 cafeÌs 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 CafeÌ 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.--Publisher
650		0	_aExistentialism.
650		0	_aPhilosophy, Modern _y20th century.
650		0	_aPhilosophy _zFrance _xHistory _y20th century.
650		0	_aPhilosophers _zFrance _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aPHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. _2bisacsh
776	0	8	_iOnline version: _aBakewell, Sarah, author. _tAt the existentialist cafeÌ _dNew York : Other Press, 2016 _z9781590514894 _w(DLC) 2016000382
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