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At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell |
This irresistible title, with its whiff of Parisian allure and intellectualism, readied me for an intoxicating read, and did not disappoint. Sarah Bakewell‘s presentation of Existentialism is wonderfully readable, and her brief biographies of its leading proponents: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger, Jaspers, Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and others, are both welcome and insightful. With reflections on her own discovery of the Existentialists, Bakewell brings the past into the present.
(Sharron Calkins - bwl 116 Spring 2025 ) |
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