ISBN: 0701186585
Godina izdanja: 2016
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Sarah Bakewell - Sarah Bakewell At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being & Apricot Cocktails
Chatto & Windus, London, 2016
440 str.
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stanje: dobro
No dust jacket.

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails is a 2016 book written by Sarah Bakewell that covers the philosophy and history of the 20th century movement existentialism. The book provides an account of the modern day existentialists who came into their own before and during the Second World War. The book discusses the ideas of the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, and how his teaching influenced the rise of existentialism through the likes of Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, who are the main protagonists of the book. Bakewell takes readers on an intellectual journey, intertwining biographical narratives with philosophical discussions. The work serves as both an introduction to existentialist philosophy and a historical account of a movement that left a profound mark on 20th-century thought. The title refers to an incident in which Sartre`s close friend and fellow philosopher Raymond Aron startled him when they were in a cafe, by pointing to the glass in front of him and stating, `You can make a philosophy out of this cocktail.`

Bakewell structures At the Existentialist Café by focusing each chapter on a particular philosopher or period within the existentialist movement, starting by introducing the early existentialists Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Dostoevsky and Kafka, and then moving on to the lives and philosophies of Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Karl Jaspers, and Merleau-Ponty.

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
Croiseś comme ca̧
The eyes of the least favoured
Having once tasted phenomenology
The imponderable bloom

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 cafes of the ..

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.`


Nonfiction, Philosophy, 0701186585