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At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and apricot cocktails with: Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others by Sarah Bakewell is an absolutely delightful examination of existentialism and the people who created it and lived it. It is a wonderful introduction for a lay reader, such as myself. As in her other work, How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer, the b
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020717: this is sort of a personal fantasy for me: to be in Paris, to know, to learn, to live, the most significant philosophy of the twentieth century, to interact, argue, agree, with names i know only from books so many years after. bakewell gives an enthusiastic interpretation of how important phenomenonology, Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and others were for her. for me no less...
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020717: this is sort of a personal fantasy for me: to be in Paris, to know, to learn, to live, the most significant philosophy of the twentieth century, to interact, argue, agree, with names i know only from books so many years after. bakewell gives an enthusiastic interpretation of how important phenomenonology, Husserl, Sartre, Heidegger, de Beauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and others were for her. for me no less...
i started with Sart ...more
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Aug 27, 2016
Mary Anne
marked it as to-read
