Early in her new book, “At the Existentialist Café,” Sarah Bakewell admits that her beloved existentialism has seen better days. Once the preferred method for making sense of a godless world of moral ...

For anyone coming of age in the 1960s, existentialism was an alluring but oddly woolly business. It seemed to require being deadly serious about spending lots of time drinking, dancing, smoking and ...

In 1946, jazz-loving existentialists in Paris would leave the cafés and hit the dive bars, where, according to one bon vivant, they’d refuse entry to those who didn’t look right but “would admit ...

At the Existentialist Café takes us from the birth of existentialism to the deaths of its originators, exploring the lives of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, and ...

When it comes to living, there’s no getting out alive. But books can help us survive, so to speak, by passing on what is most important about being human before we perish. In “The Existentialist’s ...

The French existentialist, Jean Paul Sartre, once said, “Man is condemned to be free; because once he is thrown into this world, he is responsible for everything he does.” This is certainly true in ...

THE AGE OF REASON (397 pp.)—Jean-Paul Sartre—translated by Eric Sutton —Knopf ($3). What is existentialism? As far as most Americans are concerned, it is the latest incomprehensible fashion from ...

Have you ever felt disconnected from the world and people around you, and even from your own body? Multi-disciplinary artist Nadiah Alsagoff explores that concept with her "You Are Here" umbrella, ...

"He was the first one to take it into his head to sculpt man as he appears, that is to say, from a distance," wrote Jean-Paul Sartre in a 1948 essay about Alberto Giacometti. Sartre was the most ...