Sarah Bakewell
Person on 2 sites
British writer, author of How to Live: A Life of Montaigne, At the Existentialist Cafe and Humanly Possible.
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2 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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7 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Existentialism: A Reconstruction (opens rcmnd.app)
“This is a fabulous, clear introduction to existentialist thought. It's also very philosophically rigorous.”
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Notes from the Underground (opens rcmnd.app)
“Another writer often mentioned is Dostoyevsky: a great way of getting into the real miserabilist side of existentialism is to read his Notes from the Underground. It absolutely captures the anguish of being an isolated…”
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Nausea (opens rcmnd.app)
“I chose Nausea for several reasons. One is that it's the first existentialist book that I ever read. It's what first made me curious to learn more, and that's exactly what the book does. It's readable, it's powerful,…”
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Existentialism: A Reconstruction (opens rcmnd.app)