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

‘Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom’, wrote Kierkegaard.

‘A certain number of years lived without money are enough to create a whole sensibility.’

This is a touching story, especially as it is the single documented example I have come across of Heidegger actually doing something nice.

Beauvoir replied, ‘To put it briefly, you wanted to make a philosophy of man.’

computers are bad phenomenologists.