Risky business
07 September 2023Launched during Open Cambridge, a new self-guided trail, created by researchers at Cambridge’s Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER), takes the public on an altogether different tour of the city.
Opinion: Brexistentialism: Britain, the drop out nation in crisis, meets Jean-Paul Sartre
11 July 2016Andy Martin (Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages) discusses existentialism and the EU referendum.
Becksistentialism
17 July 2013A Cambridge lecturer has been imagining the inner monologue of David Beckham as he encounters the works of the great French philosophers during his time at Paris Saint-Germain.
Locked in combat: two French thinkers slog it out
31 May 2012“Hell is other people,” wrote Jean-Paul Sartre. His rival on the stage of occupied and post-war Paris was Albert Camus (“I am the world”). The two fell out but remained entangled. A book by Cambridge academic Andy Martin – The Boxer and the Goalkeeper – is an excursion into the worlds of the Frenchmen synonymous with existentialism and absurdism.
