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Simone de Beauvoir's Timeless Wisdom on Love, Freedom, and Rebellion

One of the most prominent figures in feminism is Simone de Beauvoir, who has left us a remarkable legacy. Among them are her famous quotes on love, women, and freedom, which you should know as they ...
Publishers Weekly

The Useless Mouths and Other Writings

Simone de Beauvoir, edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann, foreword by Sylvie Le Bon Beauvoir. Univ. of Illinois, $50 (360p) ISBN 978-0-252-03634-7 The centennial of Beauvoir's birth ...
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Reciprocity and Friendship in Beauvoir's Thought

Hypatia, Vol. 14, No. 4, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Autumn, 1999), pp. 36-49 (14 pages) For Simone de Beauvoir, the opposition of subjects is not inescapable as it may be resolved by a ...
JSTOR Daily

Beauvoir's Minoritarian Philosophy

Hypatia, Vol. 14, No. 4, The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Autumn, 1999), pp. 96-113 (18 pages) Drawing on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's elaborations of the project of philosophy and styles ...
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Imagine What It Was Like To Sit Down At Simone De Beauvoir's Desk

Intellectual, philosophical, literary, rebellious, Simone de Beauvoir spoke a mile a minute, and wrote quickly, too — novels, essays, a play, four memoirs. She was an atheist, bisexual, pioneer ...
The Conversation

Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt ‘different’ in the world – and changed the way we think

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 ...