Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman PrizeParis, near the turn of 1932-3. Three young friends meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They are Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and their friend Raymond Aron, who opens their eyes to a radical new way of thinking…‘It’s not often that you miss your bus stop because you’re so engrossed in reading a book about existentialism, but I did exactly that... The...

**THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***AS READ ON RADIO 4***The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Café explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.**'I can't imagine a better history' PHILIP PULLMAN * 'Fascinating, moving, funny' OLIVER BURKEMANIf you are reading this, it's likel...

How to get on well with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love? How to live?This question obsessed Renaissance nobleman Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (1533-92), who wrote free-roaming explorations of his thought and experience, unlike anything written before. Into these essays he put whatever was in his head: his tastes in wine and food, his childhood memories, the way his dog's ears twitched when it was dreaming, events in the app...

París, 1933: Jean-Paul-Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir y Raymond Aron están reunidos tomando cócteles de albaricoque en el bar Bec-de-Gaz, en la calle Montparnasse. Aron les tienta con un nuevo marco conceptual aparecido en Berlín, la fenomenología. «Si eres fenomenólogo puedes hablar de este cóctel y hacer filosofía con él», les dice.Esa sencilla frase puso en marcha un movimiento que inspiró a Sartre a integrar la fenomenología con su propia sensibilidad humanística y crear un enfoque...

What is it to be a human being? Why do I behave as I do? Montaigne did not flinch from these essential questions. His insights into the way we live are as relevant for today as they were in the 16th century. Sarah Bakewells seven-part ebook tackles the brilliance of Montaigne, philosopher of life, and asks what we can learn from his remarkable thinking.The How to Believe series of ebooks explores the teachings, philosophies and beliefs of major thinkers and religious texts. In a short, eas...

Sarah Bakewell cuenta la vida de Montaigne no bajo los protocolos habituales de una biografía sino como un tratado. Cada uno de sus veinte capítulos contiene veinte tentativas de respuesta a esa gran pregunta que Montaigne se planteaba. De las actitudes personales y de los escritos de Montaigne, Sarah Bakewell va deduciendo una serie de proposiciones que están hechas más de sugerencias que de normas, y que acaban siendo el boceto de una tradición viva que atraviesa los siglos y llega a nue...

'Sarah Bakewell has written a scholarly biography that reads like a detective novel with a historical setting ... full of sharp pen-portraits, lively asides and quirky details ... every bit as colourful and enjoyable as the title suggests' IndependentThe Smart is a true drama of eighteenth-century life with a mercurial, mysterious heroine. Caroline is a young Irishwoman who runs off to marry a soldier, comes to London and slides into a glamorous life as a high-cla...

Älskar du litteratur och konst? Har du en stark moralisk kompass trots att du inte vare sig tillhör eller praktiserar någon religion? Anser du att enskilda människoliv är viktigare än storslagna politiska visioner? I så fall är du antagligen humanist.I den kritikerrosade Humanisterna undersöker Sarah Bakewell vad humanism egentligen är, och visar hur de värderingar som från 1300-talet och framåt har hjälpt människan att navigera är precis lika användbara i modern tid.

Un relato épico del humanismo y sus representantes, y una encendida reivindicación de la libertad de pensamiento.«Hombre soy, y nada humano me es ajeno», sentenció Terencio. Sarah Bakewell se inspira en la famosa máxima del comediógrafo latino, para trazar una deslumbrante historia del pensamiento humanista, que al final se convierte casi en toda la historia de la humanidad: desde los griegos pasando por el Renacimiento italiano, la Ilustración francesa, los pensad...

This gripping nineteenth-century adventure stars Jorgen Jorgenson, who ran away to sea at fourteen and began a brilliant career by sailing to establish the first colony in Tasmania. Twists of fortune then found him captaining a warship for Napoleon before joining a British trading voyage to Iceland, where he staged an outrageous coup and ruled the country for two months.Much lay ahead, from imprisonment in the hulks to patronage by Joseph Banks and travels in Europe as a British sp...

A curiosidade intelectual, a empatia e o otimismo que caracterizam o pensamento humanista servem de inspiração há séculos. Sarah Bakewell reúne neste livro as mais extraordinárias jornadas de homens e mulheres que, desde os anos 1300 até os nossos dias, revolucionaram o modo de pensar e existir no mundo.Ao longo dos séculos, houve muitos humanistas. Foram estudiosos exilados, andarilhos que sobreviviam de expedientes e palavras. No início da era moderna, vários del...

Filosofia e biografia se encontram neste divertido retrato de Paris e dos fascinantes personagens que mudaram para sempre a maneira como pensamos.Paris, 1933. Três jovens amigos se encontram no bar Bec-de-Gaz na Rue Montparnasse. Eles são Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir e Raymond Aron, companheiro filósofo que abre seus olhos para uma nova e radical maneira de pensar.A partir de então, Sartre vai criar sua própria filosofia — do amor e do desejo, da libe...