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

5.0

I thought this was a great way to dip my toes into existentialism. From the subtitle, I was a bit worried that it would all be brooding photos of Camus in a trenchcoat and quips from de Beauvoir and Sartre, but there were plenty of sections actually discussing the ideas in reasonable detail. I'd mostly encountered Heidegger in the context of people saying how difficult and dense the writing was, so it was enlightening to get the backstory of his gradual movement into his own enclosed world of ideas.

Overall, a very effective gateway book.