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Being and drunkenness: how to party like an existentialist

9 mins | Aug 23, 2019
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I drink therefore I am. Skye C Cleary writing in Aeon magazine considers how both Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre found an 'authentic existential' way to party through choosing it freely, on their own terms, and taking responsibility for the consequences.

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