At the Existentialist Café

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Paris, 1933. Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse-- and ignite a movement, creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism: Existentialism. Interweaving biography and philosophy, Bakewell provides an investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.

subjects: Philosophers,  History,  Philosophy,  Filosofer,  Existentialism,  Literary,  Historia,  Filosofi,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY,  Modern Philosophy,  Biography,  Movements,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers,  BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary,  PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism,  nyt:culture=2016-04-10,  New York Times bestseller,  New York Times reviewed,  Philosophy, modern, 20th century,  Philosophers, biography,  Philosophers, france