Postwar American tourism helped spread existentialism across the Atlantic.

Evidence

Americans, able to visit Paris as tourists for the first time in five years, fell in love with the city all over again as they had in the 1920s. They sat in the Flore and Deux Magots, and ventured down the cellar stairs into nightclubs. They listened to the talk of l’existentialisme and les existentialistes, and passed it on to their friends back home. Cultured New Yorkers began to court the real existentialists: one by one, Sartre, Beauvoir and Camus were all invited to cross the Atlantic for visits and lecture tours. They all accepted. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 539

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the general pattern of how intellectual movements travel through tourism, ‘lost generation’ Parisian expatriation in the 1920s, and later how American lecture tours canonized European thinkers. — connects to: Post-war existentialism thrived on the excitement of a shattered world — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 529; Popularized existentialism supplied the counterculture’s vocabulary and impetus — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 915; Arendt worked to reattach existentialism to its German roots against American myth-making — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 554

Broader Connections

• Post-war existentialism thrived on the excitement of a shattered world #exemplifies (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 529
• Popularized existentialism supplied the counterculture’s vocabulary and impetus #expands (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 915
• Arendt worked to reattach existentialism to its German roots against American myth-making #complicates (0.70) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 554