Existentialist Caf News Today

Was there truly 'no exit' from humanity’s existential predicament, as Sartre posits in Huis-Close? Was the meaning of life a hellish nihilism? Such questions confronted intellectuals amidst the crisis of the Cold War that defined both the era of Existentialism. the decline of a front-rank philosopher to the status of a hired-gun propagandist for the communist bloc

In hardcover nonfiction, a look at research on aging and longevity — and, from the author of “At the Existentialist Café,” an exploration of the history of humanism. Rankings reflect sales for the week ended April 1.

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Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope

In “Humanly Possible,” Bakewell brings her signature blend of wit and philosophical sophistication to the complex, sometimes contentious 700-year history of humanist thought.

Sarah Bakewell’s sweeping new survey of the philosophical tradition, “Humanly Possible,” says that putting your faith in human behavior means confronting complacency and nihilism — but it can be worth it.

A group portrait of humanists and freethinkers takes in figures from Pico della Mirandola to Bertrand Russell and beyond.

Humanly Possible, an epic, spine-tingling and persuasive work of history by Sarah Bakewell, traces 700 years of humanism

A book can be an accomplice in a coup against winter.

A haunting horror novel set a century ago in the American West, Eleanor Catton’s first novel in a decade, a Ukrainian war diary and much more.