MSt tutor Sarah Bakewell’s new book At the Existentialist Cafe is to be published by Chatto & Windus on 3rd March, 2016.
“Paris, near the turn of 1933. 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. Pointing to his drink, he says, “You can make philosophy out of this cocktail! …”
Read more about the book at
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/1089993/at-the-existentialist-cafe/
In a related event, Sarah and Nigel Warburton will be talking about “Philosophy in the Bookshop” at Blackwell’s bookshop in Oxford on Saturday 19 March, at 11.00 am
http://bookshop.blackwell.co.uk/stores/oxford-bookshop/events/
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