| Description |
440 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1.Sir, What a Horror, Existentialism! -- 2.To the Things Themselves -- 3.The Magician from Messkirch -- 4.The They, the Call -- 5.To Crunch Flowering Almonds -- 6.I Don't Want to Eat my Manuscripts -- 7.Occupation, Liberation -- 8.Devastation -- 9.Life Studies -- 10.The Dancing Philosopher -- 11.Croises comme ca -- 12.The Eyes of the Least Favoured -- 13.Having Once Tasted Phenomenology -- 14.The Imponderable Bloom |
| Summary |
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. |
| Notes |
"With Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and others"--Title page |
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Originally published: London: Chatto & Windus, 2016 |
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Radio tie-in |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.
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Beauvoir, Simone de (Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand), 1908-1986
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Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
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Jaspers, Karl, 1883-1969.
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Husserl, Edmund, 1859-1938.
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Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, 1908-1961.
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Existentialism.
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Philosophy -- France -- History -- 20th century.
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Philosophers -- France -- Biography.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Existentialism -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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Biography.
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Reading nook.
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Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780099554882 (paperback) |
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0099554887 (paperback) |
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