At the Existentialist Cafe : Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

在存在主义咖啡馆里(纽约时报2016榜单）

那些关于自由、哲学家与存在主义的故事

二战前后的欧洲风起云涌，众哲学家用尽生命演出一场哲学飨宴，他们的思想如此精彩，他们的故事更是趣味横生、历久不衰！

1933年巴黎小酒馆的一杯鸡尾酒，开启了一场历久不衰的哲学运动， 

鼓舞了无数的年轻人：热爱生命、追求自由、奋起行动。 

人生，就是一座存在主义咖啡馆

★《纽约时报》、《卫报》、《泰晤士报文学副刊》、《观察家报》、《星期日邮报》2016年度十大好书 

★知名书评网站FiveBooks2016年度*哲学书 

★美国国家书评奖、英国库伯奖双料桂冠得主*力作 

《在存在主义的咖啡馆里》这部作品体现了贝克威尔个人特有的风格。她在书中记录着存在主义的发展轨迹，并说明了当代现实主义对真实性和自由的重要意义及密切相关性。

"It's not often that you miss your bus stop because you're so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that while immersed in Sarah Bakewell's At the Existentialist Cafe. The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading. If it doesn't win awards, I will eat my proof copy" -- Katy Guest The Independent on Sunday 

"My book of the year is Sarah Bakewell's At The Existentialist Cafe, a marvellously rich and evocative journey through one of the most powerful philosophical movements of the twentieth century... This graceful book speaks to our parochial and inward-looking age." -- Sudhir Hazareesingh Times Literary Supplement, Book of the Year 

莎拉贝克威尔 SarahBakewell 

莎拉贝克威尔（SarahBakewell），一九六三年生于英格兰南岸的伯恩茅斯（Bournemouth），经常与双亲一起在世界各地旅游，之后移民至澳洲，在雪梨的沙滩上度过童年时光。 

她在青少年时期成为存在主义者，十六岁时阅读沙特的《呕吐》，沉醉其中不能自拔，之后在英国艾赛克斯大学（UniversityofEssex）主修哲学。大学毕业后因迷上海德格而攻读博士学位，她认为人生就是一座存在主义咖啡馆，希望能效法存在主义者，整日待在咖啡馆裡阅读、写作、喝酒、恋爱而后分手、交朋友、谈思论想。某天却毅然决然放弃学业，搬到伦敦生活。 

她曾在伦敦几家书店打工，并在伦敦的卫尔康姆图书馆（WellcomeLibrary）担任古籍管理员长达十年，二○○二年展开全职写作生涯，二○一○年出版了享誉全球的《阅读蒙田，是为了生活》（商周，2012.06），该书荣获英国库帕（DuffCooper）非小说著作首奖及美国国家书评奖（NationalBookCriticsCircleAward）的传记类首奖，并进入柯斯达传记奖（CostaBiographyAward）和英国玛许传记奖（MarshBiographyAward）决选书单。 

贝克威尔过往任教于伦敦城市大学（CityUniversityofLondon）、公开大学（OpenUniversity）等校，并曾在美国纽约大学（NewYorkUniversity）纽约人文科学研究中心担任驻校作家，目前在牛津大学凯洛格学院（KelloggCollege,Oxford）教导创意写作，但多数时间仍待在伦敦，享受迷人的作家生活

相关著作:《阅读蒙田，是为了生活》 

Sarah Bakewell was a teenage existentialist, having been swept off her feet by reading Sartre's Nausea, aged 16. 

She is the author of three biographies, including the bestselling How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, which won the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction and the National Books Critics Circle Award for Biography in the US, and was shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award and the Marsh Biography Award.

本书讲述了存在主义的源起，以「存在主义天王天后」沙特和西蒙波娃领衔主演，牵引出当代学术圈中的朋友和对手──卡缪、海德格、胡塞尔、雅斯培、梅洛庞蒂和梅铎等才华横溢的哲学家轮番出场。直至今日，他们的哲学读来依旧妙趣横生，只因为它攸关人生，直指人类两个*的问题：「我们是谁？」及「我们该做什麽？」 

存在主义带来的不只是哲学的变革，更是一场席卷全世界的革命，战后的六八学运、反殖民、女权运动等等追求自由、民权的解放呼声，再再都留下了现代存在主义的烙印。 

莎拉贝克威尔巧妙交织了传记、哲学思想、历史、文化分析和个人省思，带领读者踏上这段生动而有趣的旅程，与哲学家和他们的朋友们一同经历这场令人著迷的思想运动。

Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. 

They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking..."It's not often that you miss your bus stop because you're so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that...The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading. If it doesn't win awards, I will eat my copy". (Independent on Sunday).

"Bakewell shows how fascinating were some of the existentialists' ideas and how fascinating, often frightful, were their lives. Vivid, humorous anecdotes are interwoven with a lucid and unpatronising exposition of their complex philosophy...Tender, incisive and fair". (Daily Telegraph). "Quirky, funny, clear and passionate...Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining complicated ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand". (Mail on Sunday).

By (author)  Sarah Bakewell

Format Paperback | 448 pages

Dimensions 127 x 198 x 27mm | 356g

Publication date 02 Mar 2017

Publisher Vintage Publishing

Imprint VINTAGE

Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom

Language English

ISBN10 0099554887

ISBN13 9780099554882