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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: An apricot cocktail set Jean-Paul Sartre on the path to existentialism.
Chapter 3: Freiburg became the heart of a new philosophy: phenomenology.
Chapter 4: Martin Heidegger was both a towering philosopher and a deeply flawed man.
Chapter 5: Existentialism deals with the weight of freedom and responsibility.
Chapter 6: For Sartre and de Beauvoir, existentialism was a philosophy to be lived.
Chapter 7: War shattered the existentialists’ lives, but it never halted their work.
Chapter 8: Postwar France welcomed the new spirit of existentialism.
Chapter 9: Albert Camus became first a friend, then a rival to Sartre and de Beauvoir.
Chapter 10: Among existentialist texts, The Second Sex engaged most directly with lived experience.
Description
At the Existentialist Café (2016) recounts the birth of existentialism in the early twentieth century. Both a biography and a philosophical text, it tells the stories of individual philosophers as well as their ideas. Above all, it explores how big philosophical questions can illuminate our lives and the way we live them.
Who Should Listen
- Philosophers who feel that philosophy has lost touch with everyday life
- Francophiles looking for insight on their national treasures
- Curious observers who want to learn how to look more closely at the world around them