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Bezig met laden... At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others (origineel 2016; editie 2016)door Sarah Bakewell (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkAt the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others door Sarah Bakewell (2016)
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"near the turn of 1932-3 when three young philosophers were sitting in the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue du Montparnasse in Paris, catching up on gossip and drinking the house specialty, apricot cocktails." De Beauvoir was 25, her boyfriend Sartre was 27 and his school chum Raymond Aron was describing a new train of thought, "phenomenology," which demands a close scrutiny of the elements of everyday life, "the things themselves." As Beauvoir recounted it, Aron — just back from Berlin — exclaimed, "If you are a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!" Sartre reportedly went pale — intoxicated by the potential in wedding philosophy to normal, lived experience instead of dusty, dead tomes. Towards the end of this absorbing and enjoyable book, Bakewell writes: ‘Ideas are interesting, but people are vastly more so.’ She presents a cast of characters who are undeniably diverting. Simone de Beauvoir, in particular, emerges as a highly complex individual, far more interesting than her egotistical and gullible partner. Karl Jaspers, frail in health but resolute in his determination to remain untainted by Nazism; Emmanuel Levinas, who withstood Nazi oppression and clearly perceived Heidegger’s culpability; Albert Camus, much given to high-flown rhetoric but with a sense of reality that kept him from Sartre’s political follies: these were substantial figures. The author offers fascinating insights into the cultural impact of existentialism on the English-speaking world. In his influential 1957 essay The White Negro, for example, Norman Mailer predicts much of what would become the counterculture, saying that this is the making of what he calls “the hipster” or “the American existentialist”. English existentialists included the young Iris Murdoch, who got Sartre to sign her copy of Being and Nothingness and wrote to a friend of “the excitement – I remember nothing like it since the days of discovering Keats and Shelley and Coleridge”. PrijzenOnderscheidingenErelijsten
Met literatuuropgave, registerVertaling van: At the existentialist cafe : freedom, being & apricot.London : Chatto & Windus, 2016Geschiedenis van de opkomst en bloei van het existentialisme halverwege de twintigste eeuw, met aandacht voor de personen die aan deze filosofische stroming vormgaven. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)142.78Philosophy and Psychology Philosophical Systems Critical Philosophy Existentialism And Phenomenology ExistentialismLC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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Tenslotte zal het de lezer vooral opvallen hoe gedetailleerd ze ingaat op de vele discussies, ruzies en zelfs ronduit vetes tussen de existentialisten; het lijkt op de duur wel alsof ze met niks anders bezig waren. Misschien heeft Bakewell die verschillen iets te dik aangezet en is ze af en toe iets teveel biografisch in haar benadering, maar ach ja, ook de existentialistische ‘helden’ blijken uiteindelijk maar mensen van vlees en bloed. ( )