At the Existentialist Cafe
by Sarah Bakewell
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Bakewell tells existentialism's story through Sartre, de Beauvoir, Heidegger, and Camus - inseparable from the cafes, friendships, and political crises that shaped it.
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It draws on Existentialism Is a Humanism and Beyond Good and Evil.
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Bakewell discusses Sartre's Existentialism Is a Humanism.
Bakewell traces existentialism to Nietzsche.
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