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"Existentialist Cafe" / Author: [UK] Sarah Bakewell Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
"Existentialist Cafe" / Author: [UK] Sarah Bakewell Publisher: Beijing United Publishing Company
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Introduction · · · · · ·
Paris, 1933…
Three friends were sitting in the Gaslight bar on the Boulevard Montparnasse, drinking apricot cocktails. One of them, a young philosopher named Raymond Aron, was extolling to fellow philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir a new philosophy he had discovered in Germany: phenomenology. "Look," he said, "if you were a phenomenologist, you could talk about this cocktail and make a philosophy out of it!"
In this way, the most influential and far-reaching philosophical movement in the 20th century began. Inspired by this, Sartre combined phenomenology with his French humanistic sentiment and created a new philosophical thought - modern existentialism.
In this book, Sarah Bakewell, a famous British writer, combines history, biography and philosophy, and passionately tells an existentialist story full of struggle, love, resistance and betrayal from an epic perspective. It explores in depth what existentialists who were once troubled by the questions of absolute freedom, global responsibility and human authenticity can tell us in today's turbulent and technology-driven world.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Sarah Bakewell was born in Bournemouth, England in 1963. She traveled with her parents in Asia for many years and eventually settled in Sydney, Australia, where she grew up. After returning to England, she was admitted to the University of Essex to study philosophy. After graduation, she worked as a librarian in a library in London for ten years. In 2002, Bakewell quit her job and began writing full-time. In addition to this book, her works also include How to Live (2010), The English Dane (2005), and The Smart (2002). She currently lives in London and teaches creative writing courses at London City University and the Open University.
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