Sarah Bakewell: At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails

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Existentialism was one of the most exciting movements of the twentieth century, inspiring several generations with its philosophy of liberation, authenticity, and political activism. Its concerns are remarkably close to those argued over today, from questions about freedom and purpose to the difficulties of living authentically in a technologically networked world. Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café, will explore the lives of the best-known existentialists, especially Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and ask what they still have to offer in the 21st century.
9:00 Jeff Bakewell introduces Sarah
11:00 Sarah Bakewell begins speaking
14:24 Phenomenology
41:25 Freedom
49:02 Existentialism
50:20 Q&A Begins
1:08:46 Final Questions

[@tito1894]

Talk starts at 10:55 The guy in the beginning put everyone to sleep

[@Fitnomancer]

Surely a fascinating read and thoroughly enjoyable, this book reinvigorated my hunger for reading and, i have voraciously set about any and all books that have since crossed my path.

[@charliebeaumont8947]

I thought this was a first rate lecture given by a very interesting author - I am only now reading the Existentialist Café but I am finding that Sarah Bakewell is helping me to fully appreciate this school of philosophy. I will return to the Roads to Freedom trilogy with a much better insight. Thanks for posting this and f. or enabling me to learn. Charlie

[@dariusmolark6820]

an excellent work. i have begun reading the work and am enjoying its clarity and precision over the training, lives and thought of the various philosphers and their positons. but for its lack of self-importance, bakewell's book could reach out on par with colin wilson's 'the outsider'. the barebone heidegger appears exactly and quite capable of sense, almost giving me confidence for another drowning. looking forward to her presentation of merleau ponty. a quite entertaining tome sans the fire we old cats have. but that's returning too along with nausea and anxiety as the (elected?) clown unveils a sustained moral dilemma of inhuman nastiness..

[@johnmiller7453]

Sarah Bakewell that was most interesting. Thank you.

[@arnoldtpants1]

This is a nice little intro talk to what was a really good book