AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE: FREEDOM, BEING, AND APRICOT COCKTAILS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701215B83228
English Summary/英文概要： It all began one day near the turn of 1933, as three young friends sipped
apricot cocktails in the Bec-de-Gaz bar in Montparnasse. Two were Jean-
Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir; the third was Raymond Aron, who had
just arrived from Berlin and was telling his friends about the new philosophy
he had discovered there. It was called phenomenology, and its followers
philosophised not from abstract theories, but from their direct experience of
the world.
Pale with excitement, Sartre rushed to buy a book on the subject, then went
to Berlin himself. He returned the following year with something truly
revolutionary: German phenomenology as reflected through his own very
French, humanist, rebellious sensibility. It made him a media superstar.
Known as Existentialism, his philosophy would sweep through the jazz clubs
and cafés of the Left Bank, then through the rest of the world. Under its
influence, many thousands of people over several generations would not only
think differently about the world, but also change their lives – all inspired by
a philosophy of radical freedom, human authenticity, and political activism.
AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFé is a lively, very personal journey of
exploration through the existentialist story, beginning with its early days and
tracing it through the Second World War to its application in liberation
movements of all kinds, from feminism to anti-colonialism - culminating in
the Paris student uprisings of 1968. The story mixes biography and
philosophy in order to see how the existentialists’ philosophy grew out of
their lives, and how their lives embodied their philosophy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 一切始于1933年初，三个年轻的朋友在蒙帕纳斯的一家酒吧品尝杏仁酒。其中两人是让•保罗•萨特和Simone de Beauvoir，Raymond Aron则刚从柏林回来。他正在与两个朋友分享他在柏林发现的新哲学。它被称为现象学，追随者们通过对世界的直接经验而非抽象理论进行哲学思考。
萨特兴奋地面色苍白，马上去买了相关的书籍，并亲自前往柏林。一年后，他带着革命性的成果回来了：通过其自身的人文主义、叛逆的法式情感对德国现象学进行了全新的诠释。这使他成为了媒体巨星。他的哲学被称为存在主义，迅速席卷了左岸的爵士俱乐部和咖啡馆，然后是整个世界。在这一思想的影响下，几代人不仅从不同的角度来思考这个世界，还因此改变了人生。他们都受到了这一有关激进的自由、人类真实性和政治行动主义的哲学思想的激励。
本书通过存在主义者的故事讲述了一段生动、私人的探索之旅——从其发展早期开始，追溯至二战，及其在包括女性主义、反殖民主义等各类解放运动中的运用，在1968年巴黎学生运动中达到高潮。故事融合了传记和哲学，探寻了存在主义者从生活总提炼哲学思想的过程以及他们的人生所代表的哲学思想。（LYR）
Awards/获奖情况：“轻松而有见地……探讨了复杂的思想和一个特殊的时间和地点，十分新鲜，充满活力。”——Kirkus Reviews，星级评论
“Bakewell通过哲学家们非凡的职业生涯巧妙地解释了20世纪的存在主义理论。这些哲学家致力于‘负责任的警醒’和‘对人类认同、目标、自由提出问题。’通过鲜明的人物描写和对哲学概念的清晰提炼，作者将这个有关存在主义的故事置于‘欧洲整个世纪的故事’之中，使其有关真实、叛逆、自由和责任的中心辩论更具戏剧性。”——《出版人周刊》星级评论
"With this splendidly conceived and exquisitely written double biography - of both Montaigne the man and Montaigne the book - Sarah Bakewell should persuade another generation to fall in love with Montaigne" (Sunday Times)
"How to Live is a superb, spirited introduction to the master, and should have its readers rushing straight to the essays themselves" (Adam Thorpe Guardian)
"Sarah Bakewell has written a marvellously confident and clear introduction to Montaigne...a rare achievement. Sarah Bakewell deserves congratulations for opening Montaigne to new readers so very appealingly" (Evening Standard)
"Illuminating and humane book... It’s rare to come across a biographer who remains so deliciously fond of her subject... How to Live will delight and illuminate" (Independent)
""Bakewell writes with verve. This is an intellectually lively treatment of a Renaissance giant and his world"" (Daily Telegraph)
shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2017:
https://www.englishpen.org/prizes/pen-hessell-tiltman-prize-2017-shortlist-announced/
About the Author/作者介绍： Sarah Bakewell，在埃塞克斯大学学习哲学，专攻海德格尔，后在Wellcome图书馆担任医药历史早期印刷图书的图书管理员10年。此前共著有三部图书，其中《蒙田别传》荣获美国国家书评奖(National Book Critics Circle Award)传记类奖项，英国达夫•库珀奖非虚构类奖项，并入围Costa传记奖决选名单。
Sarah Bakewell studied philosophy at the University of Essex, specializing in
Heidegger, and later spent ten years as a curator of early printed books at the
Wellcome Library for the History of Medicine. She has published 3 previous
books, including HOW TO LIVE, which won the U.S. National Book Critics’
Circle Award for Biography and the U.K.’s Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction,
and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award.
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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Chatto & Windus (pub March 2016); US: The Other Press; Germany: C.H. Beck; Russia: AST
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