Sarah Bakewell
Sarah Bakewell is a British author and biographer known for her accessible and engaging writing on philosophical subjects. Her most notable work includes 'How to Live: Or A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer,' which won the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography in 2010, and 'At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails,' which explores the lives and ideas of existentialist philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Albert Camus.
Books
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1. At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, And Apricot Cocktails
"At The Existentialist Café" is a non-fiction book that explores the lives and ideas of a group of philosophers known as the existentialists. The book takes readers on a journey through the cafes of Paris in the 1930s and 40s, where philosophers such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty would gather to discuss their ideas about freedom, being, and the meaning of life. Bakewell weaves together their personal stories, philosophical theories, and the historical context in which they lived, to create a compelling and accessible introduction to existentialism.
