The sound of the banalities generally uttered about Simone Weil can already be heard in these few words by Simone de Beauvoir: “A great famine had just struck China, and they told me that Simone Weil ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by her ...
In Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, Simone de Beauvoir remembers that as a child, she imagined her best friend, Élisabeth “Zaza” Lacoin, dying, and her schoolteacher announcing that Zaza had been called ...
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.
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Alan Riding PARISIAN LIVES Samuel Beckett, Simone de Beauvoir and Me: A Memoir By Deirdre Bair ...
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