In the popular imagination, Simone de Beauvoir is best known as the foremother of contemporary feminism, and as the turbaned, chain-smoking, glamorously intellectual companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.
In her new book, How to Think Like a Woman, the journalist Regan Penaluna zooms in on four overlooked female philosophers. Focusing on them is valuable not just because of the luminosity of each one’s ...
Jen Webb has receive funding from the Australian Research Council. The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes ...
Born in Paris to a middle-class Catholic family, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) helped create the foundation for the modern feminist movement. Deeply religious as a young girl, she considered becoming ...
As the leading feminist philosopher of the 20th century, Simone de Beauvoir’s best-selling book The Second Sex exemplified the power of writing to bring women’s experiences out from the shadows and ...
Inseparable. By Simone de Beauvoir. Translated by Sandra Smith. Ecco; 176 pages; $26.99. Published in Britain as “The Inseparables”. Translated by Lauren Elkin. Vintage Classics; £12.99 IN 1958, IN ...
“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...
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