Existentialist café culture inverted bourgeois values, glorifying the dangerous over the nice

Evidence

In this rebellious world, just as with the Parisian bohemians and Dadaists in earlier generations, everything that was dangerous and provocative was good, and everything that was nice or bourgeois was bad. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 47

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the moral-panic and immodesty literature on countercultural inversion, and to my reading on how subcultures define themselves against a hated mainstream. — connects to: Existentialists cultivated a deliberately disheveled antifashion style — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 46; Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1025; Punk inverted 68 by repudiating pleasure and exposing interiority as ideology — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1018

Broader Connections

• Existentialists cultivated a deliberately disheveled antifashion style #expands (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 46
• Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems #corroborates (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1025