At the Existentialist Café

In conclusion:

‘Mais enfin, qu'est-ce que l'existentialisme?' (I'm still not sure)

Heidegger — what a dick!

Sartre — too cool for everything

Simone de Beauvoir — all kinds of awesome

Husserl — the OG

Marleau-Ponty — an emotionally stable male philosopher (!!!)

Camus - my problematic fave - did not get as much book space as I hoped for. There were some weird shifts in chronology and a couple of repetitions that made the whole thing feel like more of a collection of essays than a coherent book. Really great insights into the mentality of the French immediately pre- and post-WW2 though.