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At the existentialist café : freedom, being and apricot cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others / Sarah Bakewell.
Summary:
At the Existentialist Café is a thrilling look at the famous group of post-war thinkers who became known as the Existentialists: Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger, and their circle. Starting with Paris after the devastation of the Second World War, Sarah Bakewell (winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for her previous book) takes us inside the passionate debates and equally passionate lives of these brilliant, if flawed, characters. Here is a wonderful, vibrant look at the social, artistic and political currents that shaped the existentialist movement--a mode of thinking and being that, as Bakewell vividly shows, deeply affects us today. Never has the story of this influential group, and especially that of the legendary relationship between Sartre and de Beauvoir, been told with such verve and sweep, weaving personal life with social upheaval and the universal quest for understanding.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345810953 (hardcover) :
- Physical Description: 440 pages : illustrations, portraits. ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016.
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Subject:
- Existentialism.
Philosophy, Modern > 20th century.
Philosophy > France > History > 20th century.
Philosophers > France > History > 20th century.
Philosophers > France > Biography.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Creston Public Library | 142.78 BAK (Text)
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35140100003832 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Galiano Island Community Library | NF 142.78 BAK (Text) | 33127000129041 | Non fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Nakusp Public Library | 142.78 BAK (Text) | 35160000730961 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Terrace Public Library | 142.78 BAK (Text) | 35151000602060 | Adult Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Whistler Public Library | 142.78 BAK (Text) | 33987000965383 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | 142.78 BAKE (Text) | 3326000395232 | Nonfiction | Volume hold | Checked out | 2025-04-29 |
| Williams Lake Branch | 142.78 BAK (Text) | 33923005768555 | Non-fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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