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soracities · 7 months
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Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café [ID in ALT]
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kaggsy59 · 11 months
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"...all things are temporal and finite." #attheexistentialistcafe @Sarah_Bakewell
Back in 2020, I read a most marvellous book on the philosopher Montaigne; the title was “How To Live“, the author was Sarah Bakewell, and I absolutely loved it! However, what’s interesting is that this isn’t the first of Bakewell’s books which I’ve owned, as a year prior to obtaining the Montaigne, in 2018, I was given the Christmas gift of “At the Existentialist Cafe” by my Youngest Child. And…
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stuckinapril · 6 months
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i really am the kind of bitch who loves reading textbooks huh
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cigarettemommy · 5 months
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I come on here to read little quotes that speak to me and then immediately check the book out from the library.
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lookingatmyself · 9 months
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89rooms · 5 days
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Sartre put [his] principle into a three-word slogan…‘Existence precedes Essence’…roughly it means, that having found myself thrown into the world, I go on to create my own definition… You might think you have defined me by some label, but you are wrong, for I am always a work in progress.
Sarah Bakewell - 'At the Existentialist Cafe'
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kidlightnings · 9 months
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Tagged by @mannatea
| Last song - Rover - KAI - Spotify has been really good at throwing suggestions at me lately so I've been really vibing on a lot of new stuff
| Currently watching - Shameless, trying to catch back up to where I was when I last left off. That's a show that makes me feel some kind of way. Also sorta watching Yu-Gi-Oh and Saiki-K, and Bleach Thousand Year Blood War
| Currently reading - "A lot" um. well. The Existentialist Cafe, The Wicked King, The Horse and His Boy, and a few webtoons
| Current obsession - Lookism/PTJ-verse. Up to current on Lookism, finished Loser's Life, working through Viral Hit, and will start Manager Kim when I'm current on Viral Hit
| Tagging - @beingatoaster @queenofeden @athousandstarstodreamon @whats-ursine @snakelung
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bitter69uk · 2 years
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Died on this day: ultimate black-clad, throaty-voiced, morbidly beautiful French beatnik chanteuse, actress, eyeliner role model and Morticia Addams lookalike Juliette Gréco (7 February 1927 - 23 September 2020). “The French actress, Juliette Gréco, who used to sing in Existentialist cafes and still has the appearance of somebody not entirely reconciled to soap” is how the New York Times summarized her in 1958. More happily, a 1960 profile in Life magazine anointed Gréco the “soul of post-war Paris.” I was privileged to see Gréco perform in London twice: at The Barbican in 2000 and the Royal Festival Hall in 2011. She was mesmerizing! (Her furious version of “Ne Me Quitte Pas” is devastating). Why not remember her artistry by cranking up tune like “Les Amours Perdues”, “La Javanaise” and “Les Feuilles Mortes”? Pictured: Gréco in 1956. Read more here. 
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littlebonjournals · 2 years
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Existentialist cafe in June
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forever thinking about why Noel was a nihilist and not an existentialist
Like ahum my good sir you are choosing the fucking German above the not so respectable parisian man sitting right there? the parisian man who sits in cafes and does philosophy with 'difficult to define the relationship' SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR. My good sir if we are talking aesthetic you really went with the wrong people. AND LIKE EVEN IF WE HATING ON SARTRE (which very fair i am neither a Nietzsche nor Sartre fanboy) MY GIRL SIMONE IS STILL HERE???? 'THE SECOND SEX', ANYONE????
Noel, baby, get your philosophers straight (even though you are not)
(Besides, I believe, although this can be refuted, french new wave cinema was more existentialist than nihilistic so what is this tomfoolery???? what is this??? /lh)
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kened · 10 months
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paris | en hiver
paris | en hiver NB: this is a temporary text generated by AI paris holds significant interest in the realm of intellectual and cultural movement, having served as a prominent residence for renowned existentialist writers simone de beauvoir and jean-paul sartre. the duo were avid flâneurs, traversing the streets and cafes, intently observing and commenting on their surrounding environment. their…
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soracities · 6 months
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It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood backwards. But they forget the other proposition, that it must be lived forwards. And if one thinks over that proposition it becomes more and more evident that life can never really be understood in time because at no particular moment can I find the necessary resting-place from which to understand it.
Søren Kierkegaard, from At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
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michaelsmosey · 10 months
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- the call being interpreted as saying something like 'Be yourself!', as opposed to being phony. For Heidegger, the call is more fundamental than that. It is a call to take up a self that you didn't know you had: to wake up to your Being. Moreover, it is a call to action. It requires you to do something: to take a decision of some sort.
Sarah Bakewell; At the Existentialist Cafe
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stuckinapril · 5 months
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I’m actually so in love w my schedule right now. Daily 8-hour study sessions, reading before bed (slowly but steadily working my way through It by Alexa Chung & At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell, among others), snacking on so many tasty fruits, volunteering every week, organic chemistry research every day, marathoning Audrey Hepburn movies bc I’m officially obsessed w her, flash cards on the treadmill, deep-conditioning my curls while studying, I live at my local library and coffee shops and my favorite boba place, going out w my friends on the weekends, carving pumpkins and watching spooky movies w my bsf, vibing to songs on sunset walks, and like actually minding my own fucking business. I would ask for nothing more
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fivechairsthing · 1 day
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Never one of a reader, i nevertheless tries to resonate with my beloved Salt Fish upon her recommendation in a virtual book club of the book, At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell, by rapping the words and I found perhaps the key to entry is a rhythm generated by myself, the brain part and another like neighbours sharing recipes and gossip about another ( though this should not be endorsed), trying to pretend over French names by flair speak but the translate mandate pronunciate obviate, existence precedes essence means I or you can philosophise about our experiences in the most mundane of the rain that arranged for me to close the windows, all except for a gap for the wind that comes with it, I could go on but hunger my experience gravitates like a mattress often used to demonstrate Einstein's fabric of time and space.
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lookingatmyself · 9 months
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For Heidegger, the philosophers' second biggest mistake (after forgetfulness of Being) has been to talk about everything as though it was present-at-hand. But that is to separate things from the everyday 'concernful’ way in which we encounter them most of the time. It turns them into objects for contemplation by an unconcerned subject who has nothing to do all day but gaze at stuff. And then we ask why philosophers seem cut off from everyday life!
By making this error, philosophers allow the whole structure of worldly Being to fall apart, and then have immense difficulty in getting it back together to resemble anything like the daily existence we recognise. Instead, in Heidegger's Being-in-the-world, everything comes already linked together. If the structure falls to pieces, that is a "deficient' or secondary state. This is why a smoothly integrated world can be revealed by the simplest actions. A pen conjures up a network of ink, paper, desk and lamp, and ultimately also a network of other people for whom or to whom I am writing, each one with his or her own purposes in the world. As Heidegger wrote elsewhere, a table is not just a table: it is a family table, where the boys like to busy themselves', or perhaps the table where 'that decision was made with a friend that time, where that work was written that time, where that holiday was celebrated that time'. We are socially as well as equip-mentally involved. Thus, for Heidegger, all Being-in-the-world is also a 'Being-with’ or Mitsein. We cohabit with others in a 'with-world’, or Mitwelt.
Sarah Bakewell in At The Existentialist Cafe p 64
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