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At the Existentialist Café
by Sarah Bakewell
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A conversation over apricot cocktails in Paris opens this narrative of existentialism and the people who brought it into public life. Sarah Bakewell follows Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their intellectual neighbours through friendships, arguments, political commitments and the upheavals of twentieth-century Europe. Questions about freedom, responsibility and what it means to exist emerge through lived situations rather than an abstract sequence of doctrines. Moving between biography and explanation, the book makes room for difficult personalities and conflicting convictions, offering a lively account of ideas that reached far beyond university classrooms.
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