At the Existentialist Cafe

At the Existentialist Cafe: 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.[1] The book provides a very accurate 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. 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."

At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
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AuthorSarah Bakewell
IllustratorAndreas Gurewich
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
SubjectExistentialism
PublisherOther Press
Publication date
2016
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages448
ISBN978-1590514887

Summary

Bakewell structures At the Existentialist Cafe 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 onto the lives and philosophies of Heidegger, Husserl, Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Karl Jaspers, and Merleau-Ponty.

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Footnotes

  1. Bakewell, Sarah (2016). At the Existentialist Cafe: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails (1st ed.). New York, New York: Other Books.
gollark: It's probably harder to accidentally miswrite stuff like that now we have computerized records and automatic spellcheck.
gollark: This clearly vindicates me never* going outside, which has no other detrimental consequences.
gollark: I can't actually do regular pullups. Maybe I should not not do that somehow.
gollark: Work out while in class/flying, as a "power move".
gollark: It would be like trying to reverse-engineer a program by counting the number of zeros in the CPU's registers while it's running, or something.
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