At the Existentialist Café

Sarah Bakewell was a bookseller and a curator of early printed books at the Wellcome Library before publishing her highly acclaimed biographies The Smart, The English Dane, and the best-selling How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. In addition to writing, she now teaches in the Masters of Studies in Creative Writing at Kellogg College, University of Oxford. She lives in London.

出版者:Other Press

作者:Sarah Bakewell

页数:448

出版时间:2016-3-1

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781590514887

图书标签:哲学存在主义文化研究文学理论法国研究萨特传记非虚构

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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. “You see,” he says, “if you are a phenomenologist you can talk about this cocktail and make philosophy out of it!”

It was this simple phrase that would ignite a movement, inspiring Sartre to integrate Phenomenology into his own French, humanistic sensibility, thereby creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism. This movement would sweep through the jazz clubs and cafés of the Left Bank before making its way across the world as Existentialism.

Featuring not only philosophers, but also playwrights, anthropologists, convicts, and revolutionaries, At the Existentialist Café follows the existentialists’ story, from the first rebellious spark through the Second World War, to its role in postwar liberation movements such as anticolonialism, feminism, and gay rights. Interweaving biography and philosophy, it is the epic account of passionate 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 human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world.

读后感

不知各位是否看过法国文人相轻史。将视线转向二十世纪的法国哲学界，同样充满了立场上的聚合、分离乃至对抗。Sarah Bakewell以咖啡的轻盈消解哲学的沉重与对抗性，以其物性平衡哲学的理性，存在主义由此显得温和、轻快、平易近人。正如本书始终试图传达的一个观念：思想很有趣...  

01.书中自有咖啡馆 “又去咖啡馆了？” 我老板看了一眼我手里捧着的书，书是他的。 “是啊，最近天天泡在咖啡馆里，上班回家走路吃饭。” 我回以一个狡黠的眼神。 近几年越来越少有这种沉浸式的阅读感，像潜进深海，《存在主义咖啡馆》可以被看成一本生动的存在主义小史，基本...  

「思想很有趣，但人更有趣。」这是印在《存在主义咖啡馆》封面上的宣传语。 这几年大家都在寻找「有趣的灵魂」，但很多人似乎对「有趣」有什么误解，常常把「好笑」错当成「有趣」。饭桌上讲讲段子、抖音上跳跳舞虽然好笑，但距离「有趣的灵魂」还差很远。 存在主义者说，不要...  

用户评价

读来颇有趣味的存在主义入门书籍 自由与责任同在的选择引导个体的演化 是决定存在的基准 不应以标签和定式为借口 或是归咎于外因 这样的主张与我当下的行事准则相近 想去读第一手书籍再深入了解一下 立场犀利也好温和也罢 哲学用于践行而并非止于头脑游戏 自然滋生出许多复杂而有趣的人物 下一步要列Sartre / Beauvoir / Merleau-Ponty / Iris Murdoch的书单!

围绕胡塞尔、海德格尔、萨特、波伏娃和梅洛庞蒂的哲学思想、八卦和政治影响展开，算是对现象学和存在主义的好的入门。书中主人公们彻底摒弃了早期现代哲学中对于人之为理性主体的假设，强调人真实的生活体验，特别是其中选择和自由带来的焦虑。胡塞尔和海德格尔的背景、哲学和政治思想的不同很有趣。

前阵子各种书评一直在安利，看了个开头真心一般……作者是有多爱刻薄萨特的长相（用你告诉我们吗……

作者搜集资料串成时间线的能力也太强了。苦于对于这些作者们和他们各自的观点不太了解，所以也只能大致看看，而没有和他们各自作品联系的“原来如此”的感悟。还有让我没想到的是原来萨特，波伏娃，海德格尔，加谬他们一系列人都在现实中同一个圈子内，老在一起玩。如果在未来可以对他们各自都有了解后再读一遍肯定会感觉不一样，毕竟认识的人的八卦永远比陌生人的八卦有趣的多。

倒是不晦涩 可我本人对哲学不感兴趣