This week's Book of the Week is Sarah Bakewell's At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being and apricot cocktails, a chatty guide to mid-twentieth century Continental philosophy and the intellectuals who ignited social revolution from their café tables.

>> Read Thomas's review. 

>> An excellent series of enjoyable videos about existentialist and related philosophers. 

>> A guide to Simone de Beauvoir.

>> A guide to Jean-Paul Sartre. 

>> A crash course in existentialism. 

>> Sartre and Beauvoir "screener".

>> Beauvoir interview. 

>> Still being judged on her looks.

>> Camus vs. Sartre.

>> Jean-Paul's flower truck. 

>> Existentialist apricot cocktail recipes.  

>> The phenomenology of the cocktail. 

>> Are you experienced?