The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries. It’s a wild ...
The reputation of the French existentialist and feminist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) has a certain irony attached to it. The major claim of her most important book, The Second Sex, ...
A brilliant new translation of a classic. The very moment I first laid hands on the “complete and unabridged” translation of Simone de Beauvoir's “The Second Sex,” newly rendered in English by ...
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 ...