At the cafe of existentialism

Author's name: Sarah Bakueldar Publisher: Dar Al-Tanweer for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2019 Literary classification: Philosophy and Thought Brief about the book: From the author of "How to Live Life," a lively book about one of the most important intellectual movements of the twentieth century and the revolutionary thinkers who launched it.. Paris, 1933, three young friends sitting in a tavern, drinking apricot cocktails... They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and their mutual friend Raymond Aron, talking about a new term coming from Berlin called phenomenology... He tells them: "Come on.. if you were phenomenologists, you could talk about this cocktail and philosophize about it too.." A simple sentence that laid the foundation for a new intellectual trend as it inspired Sartre to merge the term phenomenology with his French humanistic mindset.. The spirit of this movement would transfer to jazz clubs, cafes, and the leftist currents before making its way into words as existentialism.. Existentialists, a group of philosophers and novelists who challenged traditional beliefs in their time, left their mark on youth culture in the sixties, on the civil rights movement, anti-colonialism, feminism, and other liberation movements and trends. Then it seemed that existentialism had ended. But now, in the twenty-first century, we find ourselves facing again fundamental questions about identity and freedom, this time in a highly technological complex world. And perhaps the existentialists have more to tell us than ever before. This book is a personal narrative of this bold movement, and its thinkers who created it through their emotional and sexual relationships, teachings, rebellions, lifelong friendships, and sometimes fierce disputes. An epic story of big ideas, its heroes are passionate characters with a passion stronger than life itself, in a large existential café where the noisy, tumultuous mind: Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger, Husserl, Jaspers, Merleau-Ponty, and others.