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At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
A lively narrative history of the existentialist movement centered on Sartre and Beauvoir, with Camus, Heidegger, Husserl, and Merleau-Ponty woven into the story. Written for readers with no philosophy background, it supplies the people and context before the primary works.
This is the welcoming first step: learn the story and meet the people before taking on the arguments. It is a context book by Sarah Bakewell, not a work by Sartre.
- Author
- Sarah Bakewell
- Edition
- Other Press, 2017 paperback · approximately 448 pages
- ASIN
- 1590518896
- Level
- Beginner · accessible introduction
- Kindle
- B00Z3E2KEC
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View this edition on AmazonWhat this book does
Bakewell turns a philosophical movement into a human story without requiring prior study. The book was named one of The New York Times’s Ten Best Books of 2016.
Why it belongs at step 1
This is the welcoming first step: learn the story and meet the people before taking on the arguments. It is a context book by Sarah Bakewell, not a work by Sartre.
Edition and buying notes
Other Press, 2017 paperback · approximately 448 pages. Kindle availability is listed above; confirm that the edition matches the format and translation you want.