{"subjects": ["Philosophers", "History", "Philosophy", "Filosofer", "Existentialism", "Literary", "Historia", "Filosofi", "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY", "Modern Philosophy", "Biography", "Movements", "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Philosophers", "BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary", "PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism", "nyt:culture=2016-04-10", "New York Times bestseller", "New York Times reviewed", "Philosophy, modern, 20th century", "Philosophers, biography", "Philosophers, france"], "key": "/works/OL17323751W", "title": "At the Existentialist Caf\u00e9", "authors": [{"author": {"key": "/authors/OL1469137A"}, "type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}}], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "covers": [7402178, 7913500, 10302540, 11120188], "links": [{"title": "New York Times review", "url": "http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/17/books/review/at-the-existentialist-cafe-by-sarah-bakewell.html", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "subtitle": "Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails", "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "Paris, 1933. Three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse-- and ignite a movement, creating an entirely new philosophical approach inspired by themes of radical freedom, authentic being, and political activism: Existentialism. Interweaving biography and philosophy, Bakewell provides an investigation into what the existentialists have to offer us today, at a moment when we are once again confronting the major questions of freedom, global responsibility, and human authenticity in a fractious and technology-driven world."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2016-04-04T18:27:02.352622"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2025-11-15T19:51:52.735006"}}