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Same here :) Just started reading At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, M
by nequalstim 6y ago
Same here :)
Just started reading
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails with Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others by Sarah Bakewell
It has a really nice narrative and tells the story of the aforementioned. Kierkegaard also makes some occurrences.
- stdlin 6y agoif you tend to like that book I would highly recommended Walter Kaufman's Existentialism from Dostoevsky to Sartre and Goethe, Kant, and Hegel
- david_w 6y agoSecond this also. Also enjoyed Will To Power as a kind of well of "things well said, which make you think, " even if they're not strictly correct. Bertrand Russell wrote a lot of very accessible Western philosophy overview or survey books which I found orienting: https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-western-philosophy_bertrand-russell/263257/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/a-history-of-western-philosoph... and https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_bertrand-russell/286828/ https://www.thriftbooks.com/w/the-problems-of-philosophy_ber... the former is online here: http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western%20Philosophy.pdf http://www.ntslibrary.com/PDF%20Books/History%20of%20Western... About this one he said :(paraphrasing from memory now), "A big book is a big evil. You may ask why then the author proposes to lay before you the present work..." He's a hoot.