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Ideas of Sarah Bakewell, by Text

[British, fl. 2016, Freelance biographer.]

2016	At the Existentialist Café

01	p.2	21237	Phenomenology begins from the immediate, rather than from axioms and theories
			Full Idea: Traditional philosophy often started with abstract axioms or theories, but the German phenomenologists went straight for life as they experienced it, moment to moment.
			From: Sarah Bakewell (At the Existentialist Café [2016], 01)
			A reaction: Bakewell gives this as the gist of what Aron said to Sartre in 1933, providing the bridge from phenomenology to existentialism. The obvious thought is that everybody outside philosophy starts from immediate experience, so why is this philosophy?

08	p.197	21238	Later phenomenologists tried hard to incorporate social relationships
			Full Idea: Ever since Husserl, phenomenologists and existentialists had been trying to stretch the definition of existence to incorporate our social lives and relationships.
			From: Sarah Bakewell (At the Existentialist Café [2016], 08)
			A reaction: I see a parallel move in Wittgenstein's Private Language Argument. Husserl's later work seems to have been along those lines. Putnam's Twin Earth too.