The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading.
Author: Sarah Bakewell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473545323
Category: Philosophy
Page: 448
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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize Paris, near the turn of 1932-3. 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... ‘It’s not often that you miss your bus stop because you’re so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that... The story of Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, Heidegger et al is strange, fun and compelling reading. If it doesn’t win awards, I will eat my copy’ Independent on Sunday ‘Bakewell shows how fascinating were some of the existentialists’ ideas and how fascinating, often frightful, were their lives. Vivid, humorous anecdotes are interwoven with a lucid and unpatronising exposition of their complex philosophy... Tender, incisive and fair’ Daily Telegraph ‘Quirky, funny, clear and passionate... Few writers are as good as Bakewell at explaining complicated ideas in a way that makes them easy to understand’ Mail on Sunday
“Asymmetrical Contributions of Pleasure and Pain to Subjective Well-Being, The”
(Shriver), 388n102 At the Existentialist Café (Bakewell), 348n11 Athenaeum Club
, 153 Atkinson, C. M., Jeremy Bentham, His Life and Work, 357n9 “Atlas of ...
Author: Bart Schultz
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691154775
Category: Philosophy
Page: 456
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A colorful history of utilitarianism told through the lives and ideas of Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, and its other founders In The Happiness Philosophers, Bart Schultz tells the colorful story of the lives and legacies of the founders of utilitarianism—one of the most influential yet misunderstood and maligned philosophies of the past two centuries. Best known for arguing that "it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong," utilitarianism was developed by the radical philosophers, critics, and social reformers William Godwin (the husband of Mary Wollstonecraft and father of Mary Shelley), Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart and Harriet Taylor Mill, and Henry Sidgwick. Together, they had a profound influence on nineteenth-century reforms, in areas ranging from law, politics, and economics to morals, education, and women's rights. Their work transformed life in ways we take for granted today. Bentham even advocated the decriminalization of same-sex acts, decades before the cause was taken up by other activists. As Bertrand Russell wrote about Bentham in the late 1920s, "There can be no doubt that nine-tenths of the people living in England in the latter part of last century were happier than they would have been if he had never lived." Yet in part because of its misleading name and the caricatures popularized by figures as varied as Dickens, Marx, and Foucault, utilitarianism is sometimes still dismissed as cold, calculating, inhuman, and simplistic. By revealing the fascinating human sides of the remarkable pioneers of utilitarianism, The Happiness Philosophers provides a richer understanding and appreciation of their philosophical and political perspectives—one that also helps explain why utilitarianism is experiencing a renaissance today and is again being used to tackle some of the world's most serious problems.
This is the main refrain in Jean-Paul Sartre (2007), Existentialism Is a Humanism,
translated by Carol Macomber, New ... of existentialist philosophy, see Sarah
Bakewell (2016), At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails
, ...
Author: Sven Nyholm
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1786612283
Category: Philosophy
Page: 236
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Can robots perform actions, make decisions, collaborate with humans, be our friends, perhaps fall in love, or potentially harm us? Even before these things truly happen, ethical and philosophical questions already arise. The reason is that we humans have a tendency to spontaneously attribute minds and “agency” to anything even remotely humanlike. Moreover, some people already say that robots should be our companions and have rights. Others say that robots should be slaves. This book tackles emerging ethical issues about human beings, robots, and agency head on. It explores the ethics of creating robots that are, or appear to be, decision-making agents. From military robots to self-driving cars to care robots or even sex robots equipped with artificial intelligence: how should we interpret the apparent agency of such robots? This book argues that we need to explore how human beings can best coordinate and collaborate with robots in responsible ways. It investigates ethically important differences between human agency and robot agency to work towards an ethics of responsible human-robot interaction.
Explorations in the Aesthetic, the Existential, and the Possible Lorraine Mortimer
... At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails. London:
Chatto & Windus. Balázs, Béla. 1970. Theory of the Film: Character and Growth
of a ...
Author: Lorraine Mortimer
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253043956
Category: Performing Arts
Page: 352
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In Roger Sandall’s Films and Contemporary Anthropology, Lorraine Mortimer argues that while social anthropology and documentary film share historic roots and goals, particularly on the continent of Australia, their trajectories have tended to remain separate. This book reunites film and anthropology through the works of Roger Sandall, a New Zealand–born filmmaker and Columbia University graduate, who was part of the vibrant avant-garde and social documentary film culture in New York in the 1960s. Mentored by Margaret Mead in anthropology and Cecile Starr in fine arts, Sandall was eventually hired as the one-man film unit at the newly formed Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies in 1965. In the 1970s, he became a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Sydney. Sandall won First Prize for Documentary at the Venice Film Festival in 1968, yet his films are scarcely known, even in Australia now. Mortimer demonstrates how Sandall’s films continue to be relevant to contemporary discussions in the fields of anthropology and documentary studies. She ties exploration of the making and restriction of Sandall’s aboriginal films and his nonrestricted films made in Mexico, Australia, and India to the radical history of anthropology and the resurgence today of an expanded, existential-phenomenological anthropology that encompasses the vital connections between humans, animals, things, and our environment.
Sarah Bakewell, in her delightful work At the Existentialist Café, notes that the
writer and philosopher Iris Murdoch “observed that we need not expect moral
philosophers to 'live by' their ideas in a simplistic way, as if they were following a
set of ...
Author: Robert J. Wicks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0190937173
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Page: 240
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This book is an invitation to come home to your authentic self in a world that is frequently mesmerized by "spin," narcissism, fantasy, and exhibitionism. Psychology and classic wisdom literature have, in various ways, long recognized the value for simply becoming who you are (i.e., ordinariness). However, this call is becoming increasingly drowned out by the many other voices that emphasize publicity and image-making over authenticity and humility. Renowned therapist and author Robert Wicks has written The Tao of Ordinariness as a way of beginning to address these tendencies in contemporary society. In this new countercultural work, the strength and joy of exploring who you are - and proceeding to share yourself with others in a way that they too can reclaim themselves - is revisited from a range of vantage points. The author specifically reexamines themes of humility, simplicity, letting go, self-awareness, "alonetime," resilience, and mentoring. In an era when people increasingly measure self-worth by external measures, such as the number of likes and views and followers on social media feeds (which have many individuals chasing impossible fantasies and living with a constant fear of "missing out"), Wicks offers a return to your authentic self.
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He was here the other day at the Existentialist café , where young men with little
Henri - Quatre beards go , and crazy over - grown schoolgirls from nouveau riche
families who dress like thirteen - year - olds . Yes , Stefan , your Rapunzel made ...
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Orpheus looks at her and she disappears . He is killed by the Bacchantes , a club
of women based at an “ existentialist ” cafe . Now dead , he is received by the
Princess , who forthwith sends him back and who goes on to her own
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The beer at the Existentialist Cafe was more vapid and cost more , and a student
had a book under his arm . Those were its distinguishing features . The vicious
hooting of the motorists , before the law stepped in with a total ban , gave
acoustic ...
Author: Bernard Sachs
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Page: 187
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Dr van Rensburg was the head of the Ossewa-Brandwag, the formidable anti-Government organisation that opposed the war effort against Hitler not only politically but with acts of sabotage.
The Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine.
Author: Sarah Bakewell
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1446483673
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 320
View: 732
The Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to marry a soldier, comes to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-class prostitute, a great risk-taker, possessing a mesmerising appeal. In the early 1770s, she becomes involved with the intriguing Perreau twins, identical in looks but opposite in character, one a sober merchant, the other a raffish gambler. They begin forging bonds, living in increasing luxury until everything collapses like a house of cards - and forgery is a capital offence. A brilliantly researched and marvellously evocative history, The Smart is full of the life of London streets and shots through with enduring themes - sex, money, death and fame. It bridges the gap between aristocracy and underworld as eighteenth-century society is drawn into the most scandalous financial sting of the age.
( St Laurent found her at an existentialist cafe , I bet you , and recognised her
potential all through the cigarette smoke and the lianatype hair - do and the dirt . )
That ' s all fine by me , but she shouldn ' t have let herself be photographed .
Author: Mark Lemon
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... as we sat drinking ersatz coffee in an atmosphere of ersatz cigarettes , pointed
out various unknown personalities who were all in one way or another quite
brilliant and astonishing . ' Of course , ' she said , ' this is the anti - existentialist
café .
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He managed an existentialist nightclub in Capri for a while , but the place closed .
Carl drew from ... Quick prosperity was shortly followed by bankruptcy , and Carl
opened a new existentialist café in the basement of a São Paulo skyscraper .
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ockets , peelinocte on and did smilinosung line café epigrams of the middle
category . Van said : “ Bravo ! " “ Well , it is untidy . " “ Hopelessly ! ” “ Look , ” she
said with gusto . “ Picture an Existentialist café here in Imphal . Can you do that ?
Author: C. Ross Smith
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Category: India
Page: 282
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Peter, on the other hand, looked like he belonged in some existentialist cafe in
Paris. He was tall and thin, with longish black hair, hollow cheekbones in a pale
face, and piercing dark brown eyes. A native New Yorker, he's a year older than ...
Author: Alexis Page
Publisher: Bantam Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780553570441
Category: Juvenile Fiction
Page: 179
View: 889
Anna Morris is in a huge jam. She gets a surprise visit from her longtime boyfriend, Joel, while her ex-crush, Peter, plans to stop by; but Anna also has a major date with Kerry Halley, her latest dream guy.
But he is not playing a waiting game in an existentialist café . He has simply
found a clever way of ceasing to be regarded as an alien , by literally embodying
the American dream – to become the President . Yet this rests on an optical
illusion ...
Author: Philip Cohen
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Category: Great Britain
Page: 262
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What are the historical conditions of receptivity - or resistance - to racism within different cultures? How did race relations get connected to the youth question in post-war Britain? How far are practices of discrimination institutionalized in state education and youth training policies? How are the responses of Asian and Afro-Carribean youth affecting the politics of their elders? In examining these questions, the contributors to this volume draw on their own research and involvement in the anti-racist movement to bring out the implications for future practice.
His shoulders are still damp with Seine fog and his clothes reek with tobacco
smoke from Tabou , the existentialist café at Saint Germain de Pré . « Marcello »
today has turned into a tall lanky boy with a beard and a cowboy's check flannel
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... has been turned into cially JoAnna Peled and Karen Evans has to do with the
sexual shenanigans an existentialist café . who represent the " cantata's ” most at
of various members of Parliament ( whose The show's overall tone , " Conceived
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With the boys ' nocturnal wanderings and the wonderful images of the awakening
city ( shot by Marcel De Backer ) , the suggestive jazz score by Claude Rabitsky ,
the accurate observations of existentialist café life ( complete with bebop and ...
Author: Cinémathèque royale de Belgique
Publisher: Ludion
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Category: Performing Arts
Page: 992
View: 959
The recent centenary of the motion picture prompted the Belgian Royal Film Archive to compile an encyclopedia of the history of Belgian film. The country has produced a considerable cinematic output over the past hundred years, with a total of some 1,500 titles, including every imaginable genre, from documentaries to war films, romantic dramas, slapstick, animation, art movies and experimental films. This book is published in collaboration with the Royal Film Archive. The book contains a broad survey of 100 years of Belgian cinema history, from masterpieces of silent filmmaking to recent highlights like the 1992 film Daens. This comprehensive, easy-to-use, and attractively illustrated reference work is an important scholarly addition to all serious film libraries.
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY POPMATTERS “I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.”—Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 In the early twentieth century, Mecklenburgh Square—a hidden architectural ...
Author: Francesca Wade
Publisher: Tim Duggan Books
ISBN: 0451497813
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Page: 400
View: 485
“A beautiful and deeply moving book.”—Sally Rooney, author of Normal People An engrossing group portrait of five women writers, including Virginia Woolf, who moved to London’s Mecklenburgh Square in search of new freedom in their lives and work. “I like this London life . . . the street-sauntering and square-haunting.”—Virginia Woolf, diary, 1925 In the early twentieth century, Mecklenburgh Square—a hidden architectural gem in the heart of London—was a radical address. On the outskirts of Bloomsbury known for the eponymous group who “lived in squares, painted in circles, and loved in triangles,” the square was home to students, struggling artists, and revolutionaries. In the pivotal era between the two world wars, the lives of five remarkable women intertwined at this one address: modernist poet H. D., detective novelist Dorothy L. Sayers, classicist Jane Harrison, economic historian Eileen Power, and author and publisher Virginia Woolf. In an era when women’s freedoms were fast expanding, they each sought a space where they could live, love, and—above all—work independently. With sparkling insight and a novelistic style, Francesca Wade sheds new light on a group of artists and thinkers whose pioneering work would enrich the possibilities of women’s lives for generations to come.