In de Beauvoir’s fiction of the late 1960s — primary sources of this show devised by performer Jillian Murray and director Susanne Chaundy — disgust for the ageing and increasingly sexless self is a ...

From October 1 to January 7, 2026, enjoy Simone de Beauvoir et l'amant américain at the Théâtre du Gymnase every Tuesday and Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. Get your tickets now! When Simone de Beauvoir fell ...

Your browser does not support the audio element. At the heart of human existence is a tragic ambiguity: the fact that we experience ourselves both as subject and ...

Explore the major sites linked to Simone de Beauvoir in Paris, from her writings to urban tributes, and discover how this philosopher and novelist became an enduring icon of feminism and free thought.

'Bust of Simone de Beauvoir in profile' (circa 1946), by Alberto Giacometti. FONDATION GIACOMETTI Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) was held prisoner in a stalag near Trier, Germany until March 1941, when ...

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 ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/jspecphil.33.3.0448 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/jspecphil.33.3.0448 Copy URL ABSTRACT: This essay advances the idea that Simone ...

Today, 110 years ago, Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris. She was a communist militant and one of the most important precursors of gender feminism, the predominant line in that ideology today.

From the Desk of Simone de Beauvoir includes an informal archive of the great feminist philosopher’s works, as well as those of her inspirations and the people influenced by her. The Woman Destroyed, ...

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Before we see any of the work at London’s Amar Gallery, we’re already burdened by that most famous of surnames. Born in 1910, Hélène de Beauvoir became an artist of modest renown. Her poetic, often ...