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...

Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major intellectual movement of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it, by the best-selling author of How to Live...

"How to Live: Or a Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer" von Sarah Bakewell ist eine biografische und philosophische Erkundung des Lebens und Denkens des französischen Renaissance-Philosophen Michel de...

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 eine fesselnde Einführung in die Welt des Existentialismus, einer philosophischen Bewegung des 20. Jahrhunderts. Das Buch beleuchtet das Leben und...

"Das Café der Existenzialisten. Freiheit, Sein & Aprikosencocktails" von Sarah Bakewell ist eine fesselnde Erkundung der existenzialistischen Bewegung, die im 20. Jahrhundert aufblühte. Das Buch bietet einen lebendigen Einblick in das...

This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania. Twists of fortune then found him captaining a warship...

Lies viel, vergiss das meiste wieder, und sei schwer von Begriff! - Habe ein Hinterzimmer in deinem Geschäft! - Tu etwas, was noch nie zuvor jemand getan hat! - Mach deinen Job gut, aber nicht zu gut! - Philosophiere nur zufällig! -...