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At the Existentialist Café

Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

by Sarah Bakewell

2016 448 pages ★ 4.0 (7 ratings)

Paris, 1933. Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse-- and ignite a movement, creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism: Existentialism. Interweaving biography …

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