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Title: At the existentialist café : freedom, being, and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Karl Jaspers, Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others / Sarah Bakewell.

Publisher: New York : Other Press, [2016]

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LOCATION CALL # VOL. STATUS OPACMSG
 Warrenton Adult Non-Fiction  142.78 BAK    AVAILABLE  ---
Description: 439 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary: Presents a spirited account of the Existentialist intellectual and philosophical movement of the 1930s while sharing insights into the contributions of key revolutionary thinkers and the movement's present-day legacy.
Contents: Sir, what a horror, existentialism! -- To the things themselves -- The magician from Messkirch -- The they, the call -- To crunch flowering almonds -- I don't want to eat my manuscripts -- Occupation, liberation -- Devastation -- Life studies -- The dancing philosopher -- Croisés comme ça -- The eyes of the least favoured -- Having once tasted phenomenology -- The imponderable bloom.
Bibliog.: Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-421) and index.
Subject: Existentialism.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
Timeframe: 1900 - 1999
ISBN/ISSN: 9781590514887 (hardcover)
1590514882 (hardcover)
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