This book is a great read. It offers a magisterial view of existentialism and phenomenology and the key figures in that tradition such Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Camus and Simone de Beauvoir. It takes turns between offering a quick rundown of key philosophical concepts and biographical details about the book's heroes. While shining light on their great philosophical insights, the author also takes them to task for their all-too-human flaws. It's also amusing to read about the quarrels between the philosophers, their broken friendships, affairs and bourgeois life in Paris.
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Tejas Harad started reading The Sentinels of Culture by Tithi Bhattacharya
The Sentinels of Culture by Tithi Bhattacharya
This book is about the intellegentsia in nineteenth-century Bengal. It analyzes why—from the second half of the nineteenth century—the Hindu …
Tejas Harad started reading Foucault by Gary Gutting
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Tejas Harad finished reading Silencing the Past by Michel-Rolph Trouillot
Tejas Harad started reading Pierre Bourdieu by Michael Grenfell
Tejas Harad finished reading At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a …
Tejas Harad started reading At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
At the Existentialist Café by Sarah Bakewell
Named one of the Ten Best Books of 2016 by the New York Times, a spirited account of a major …
Tejas Harad finished reading Pierre Bourdieu by Jeremy F. Lane
Tejas Harad started reading Ms Militancy by Meena Kandasamy
Ms Militancy by Meena Kandasamy
Meena Kandasamy’s full-blooded and highly experimental poems challenge the dominant mode in contemporary Indian poetry in English: status-quoist, depoliticised, neatly …
Tejas Harad started reading Ambedkar in London by Christophe Jaffrelot
Tejas Harad finished reading The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today …
Tejas Harad finished reading The Politics of Caste in West Bengal by Geir Heierstad
The Politics of Caste in West Bengal by Geir Heierstad, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Chandra, Uday (Political scientist)
This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern …
Tejas Harad started reading The Politics of Caste in West Bengal by Geir Heierstad
The Politics of Caste in West Bengal by Geir Heierstad, Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Chandra, Uday (Political scientist)
This volume offers for the first time a comprehensive and in-depth analysis of the making and maintenance of a modern …
Tejas Harad started reading The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
The Rise of Islam and the Bengal Frontier, 1204-1760 by Richard Maxwell Eaton
In all of the South Asian subcontinent, Bengal was the region most receptive to the Islamic faith. This area today …