Sarah Bakewell
Season 4 Episode 3
Philosophical discussion abounds this week as Robin and Josie are joined by author of, amongst many great books, ‘At the Existentialist Café’, Sarah Bakewell. They wander through the work of Bertrand Russell, Albert Camus, Mervyn Peake and many more besides before arriving at the conclusion that basically we should just all reread ‘The Great Gatsby’ more often than we do.
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Reading List
Sarah recommends:
Marx: For Beginners by Rius
Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake
Peake’s Progress by Mervyn Peake
Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
The books of Willard Pryce
The books of Enid Blyton
The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
The Outsider by Colin Wilson
Second-Hand Time by Svetlana Alexievich
Robin recommends:
At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails by Sarah Bakewell
How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at an Answer by Sarah Bakewell
Structuralism and Poststructuralism For Beginners by Donald D. Palmer
The Self Illusion: Why There is No ‘You’ Inside Your Head by Bruce Hood
Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth by Apostolos Doxiadis & Christos Papadimitriou
R. Crumb’s Kafka by Robert Crumb
The work of Oscar Zárate
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig
Steppenwolf by Herman Hesse
The Glass Bead Game by Herman Hesse
Religion and the Rebel by Colin Wilson
The Strength to Dream by Colin Wilson
The Killer by Colin Wilson
Sum Total by Ray Gostling
Josie recommends:
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
The Problems of Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
The Outsider by Albert Camus
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