Nudge, nudge, gentle readers, just to be clear.

[Becky Lindroos]

Yes -  I read At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell and I liked it so much I almost got my hair cut like the author’s (only a friend dissuaded me).    I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in 20th century European philosophers of the existentialist variety.  She gets it right.  


Becky
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

> On Oct 17, 2017, at 2:37 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> MK: I'm not starting the [M & D] Read.
> 
> MK: I like it so I hope if we do almost everyone jumps into the dance. 
> I  will. 
> 
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> Meanwhile, I want to highly recommend a book in which Melanie Jackson 
> appears on the last acknowledgments page. With therefore hints that
> maybe her shadow reader husband was involved in parts? *
> 
> That book is AT THE EXISTENTIALIST CAFE by Sarah Bakewell. 
> "No ideas but in people", one might adapt WCWilliams' remark to describe this book. 
> 
> Wherein one of the interesting, but minor things I learned, was that the CIA
> got the dying Franz Fanon out of Algeria to a hospital in Bethesda MD, where
> he did die. at 38.
> 
> 
> * In which I also learned that Heidegger had a "They/Them" as controllers of us all in some of his writing,
> I think in the later work, The Question of Technology. In which I learned that a writer on human beings and computers named
> Dreyfus evidently wrote a very good book in 2001 on why "the Internet is THE technological innovation that
> most clearly reveals what technology is". Which makes a reader of BLEEDING EDGE want to read it. 
> 
> PS I think this guy is Herbert Dreyfus, I'm not looking anything up, who I remember reading much earlier than 2001; a book about computers and beings
> in which I think he predicted that a machine could not beat the best chess players which gave me hope until they did. (But
> I may have a self-created memory of Herb) 

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