De Humanisten by Sarah Bakewell
A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer
A lively, accessible narrative that traces mid-20th-century existentialist thinkers through their lives, friendships and historical moments, explaining central themes — freedom, responsibility, authenticity, anxiety — in plain language; by following figures such as Sartre, de Beauvoir and Camus in Paris cafés, wartime resistance and postwar debates, the book intertwines biography, intellectual history and anecdote to show how personal choices and political commitments shaped their ideas and to present existentialism as a humane, practical response to modern crises.
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- 2010
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- English
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- De Humanisten
- How to Live
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