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书名：At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails存在主义咖啡馆：自由、存在和杏子鸡尾酒

作者：Sarah Bakewell
出版社名称：Vintage
出版时间：2017
语种：英文
ISBN：9780099554882
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.8 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：448（以实物为准）

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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。

At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails《存在主义咖啡馆：自由、存在和杏子鸡尾酒》这部作品体现了贝克韦尔个人特有的风格。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。

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“活泼、精辟——以全新的目光，令人振奋地审视了那些复杂的头脑与他们所处的独特时代。”——《科克斯评论》

“《存在主义咖啡馆》令人耳目一新地回顾了那些曾经陈旧的思想及其兴起的环境……全书充满了各种让人惊喜的小细节。”——《纽约时报》

“《存在主义咖啡馆》将传记、哲学、历史、文化分析与个人思考杂糅在一起，读起来饶有趣味。”——《独立报》

“精彩……缜密、清晰——强烈推荐给任何有思考能力的人。”——《图书馆杂志》

Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize
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…

Review
"My book of the year is Sarah Bakewell’s At The Existentialist Café, 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)

"A wonderfully readable combination of biography, philosophy, history, cultural analysis and personal reflection."(John Walsh Independent)

"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." (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)

本书At The Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails《存在主义咖啡馆：自由、存在和杏子鸡尾酒》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，直指人类两个很大的问题：「我们是谁？」及「我们该做什么？」

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，都留下了现代存在主义的烙印。

莎拉·贝克韦尔巧妙交织了传记、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着迷的思想运动。

莎拉·贝克韦尔，1963年出生于英国的伯恩茅斯，后随父母在亚洲旅行多年，后来在澳大利亚悉尼定居、长大。返回英国后，她考入埃塞克斯大学，攻读哲学专业，毕业后在伦敦的一家图书馆做了十年图书管理员。2002年，贝克韦尔辞去工作，开始专职写作，除本书外，她的作品还包括How to Live（2010）、The English Dane（2005）、The Smart（2002）。她目前生活在伦敦，并在伦敦城市大学和开放大学教授创意写作课。

Sarah Bakewell was born in Bournemouth on the English south coast, but spent most of her childhood in Sydney, Australia, after several years travelling the hippy trail through Asia with her parents. Returning to Britain, she studied philosophy at the University of Essex and worked as a curator of early printed books at London’s Wellcome Library for ten years before devoting herself to full-time writing in 2002. She now lives mostly in London, and teaches Creative Writing at Kellogg College, Oxford.

It is sometimes said that existentialism is more of a mood than a philosophy, and that it can be traced back to anguished novelists of the nineteenth century,and beyond that to Blaise Pascal, who was terrified by the silence of infinite spaces, and beyond that to the soul- searching St Augustine, and beyond that to the Old Testament’s weary Ecclesiastes and to Job, the man who dared to question the game God was playing with him and was intimidated into submission. To anyone, in short, who has ever felt disgruntled, rebellious, or alienated about anything.

But one can go the other way, and narrow the birth of modern existentialism down to a moment near the turn of 1932-3, when three young philosophers were sitting in the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue du Montparnasse in Paris, catching up on gossip and drinking the house specia1it apricot cocktails.
The one who later told the story in most detail was Simone de Beauvoir, then around twenty-five years old and given to watching the world closely through her elegant hooded eyes. She was there with her boyfriend, Jean-Paul Sartre, a round-shouldered twenty-seven- year-old with down-turned grouper lips, a dented complexion, prominent cars, and eyes that pointed in different directions, for his almost-blind right eye tended to wander outwards in a severe exotropia or misalignment of the gaze. Talking to him could be disorienting for the unwary but if you forced yourself to stick with the left eye, you would invariably find it watching you with warm intelligence: the eye of a man interested in everything you could tell him.
Sartre and Beauvoir were certainly interested now because the third person at the table had news for them. This was Sartre’s debonair old school friend Raymond Aron, a fellow graduate of the École normale supérieure. Like the other two, Aron was in Paris for his winter break. But whereas Sartre and Beauvoir had been teaching in the French provinces — Sartre in Le Havre, Beauvoir in Rouen — Aron had been studying in Berlin. He was now telling his friends about a philosophy he had discovered there with the sinuous name of phenomenology - a word so long yet elegantly balanced that, in French as in English, it can make a line of iambic trimeter all by itself.