- Philosophers, History, Philosophy, Filosofer
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.
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Earnest, grave, cool and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- cooloverwhelming
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Sarah Bakewell
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Penguin Random House, Audible Studios on Brilliance, Alfred A. Knopf Canada
- Editions
- 11
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781536617474
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