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

As Sloan Wilson recalled, executives began wearing (identical) sports clothes to work instead of grey suits — just to prove that they, unlike all the other conformists, were free and authentic individuals.