Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical...

Subtitled, "A Life Of Montaigne In One Question & Twenty Attempts At An Answer". Combines philosophy, biography and self-help manual with a portrait of life in 16th century France. The first full biography of Michel de Montaigne for...

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Mauri von Bakewell, Sarah

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love--such questions arise in most people's lives. They are all versions of a bigger question: How do you live? This question obsessed...

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***AS READ ON RADIO 4***The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it...

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope von Bakewell, Sarah

"At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails" von Sarah Bakewell ist ein faszinierender Überblick über die Existenzphilosophie und ihre Protagonisten. Das Buch beginnt in einem Pariser Café im Jahr 1933, wo drei...