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على مقهى الوجودية: الحرية والوجود وكوكتيلات المشمش by Sarah Bakewell, حسام نايل

5.0

Absolutely brilliant! It’s a great and accessible introduction to the world of phenomenology and existentialism. Drawing from philosophy, war time experience, and the lives of the many people who inhabit this book (the broad structure though is Heidegger’s life and Sartre’s life, in that order), it takes the reader on a roller coaster ride that neither biography nor philosophy. It mixes the two in a wonderful apricot cocktail — apt, perhaps, for a time when we are more and more given to seeing people as a crowd without faces that has to be infallible and decided. This book reminded me of the real and urgent need to see people and things in context, as flawed, marvellous poetry in motion.