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Earphones Award Victor (AudioFile Mag) From the best-selling author of How to Live, a spirited consideration of one of the 20th century's major intellectual actions and the brand new thinkers who came up to condition it. Paris, 1933: Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are the young Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and longtime friend Raymond Aron, a fellow philosopher who raves to them about a new conceptual framework from Berlin called phenomenology. "The simple truth is," he says, "if you are a phenomenologist, you can speak about this cocktail and make beliefs out of it!" It was this simple expression that could ignite a activity, uplifting Sartre to integrate phenomenology into his own French humanistic sensibility, thus creating an entirely new philosophical way inspired by styles of radical freedom, real being, and politics activism. This activity would sweep through the jazz night clubs and cafés of the Left Bank prior to making its way around the world as existentialism. Having not only philosophers but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café uses the existentialists' tale from the first rebellious spark through the next World Warfare to its role in postwar liberation actions such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and beliefs, it's the epic consideration of ardent encounters - fights, love affairs, mentorships, rebellions, and long partnerships - and a vital investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and real human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.
