Laura Hengehold presents a new, Deleuzian reading of Simone de Beauvoir's phenomenology, the place of recognition in The Second Sex, the philosophical issues in her novels and the important role of her student diaries. Most studies of Simone de Beauvoir situate her with respect to Hegel and the trad[...]

From the best-selling author of "How to Live," a spirited account of one of the twentieth century s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it
Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They [...]

Simon de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and served as a model of openness and honesty for countless men and women. Sartre was revered during his lifetime as a paradigm of the mode[...]

New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Simone de Beauvoir, the great French philosopher and mother of feminism.

When Simone de Beauvoir was a little girl, her father would proudly boast that she had the brain of a man--whatever that [...]

Have you ever wondered what Andrea Dworkin would have to say about your Brazilian wax? Or what Mary Wollstonecraft would think about the 'fairy-tale' weddings you're constantly being invited to? Ever thought about what advice Naomi Wolf would give you on your Tinder profile?Using 40 everyday questio[...]

When the beautiful, ambitious actress Regina takes Fosca into her life and learns his amazing truth, she is obsessed with the thought that in his memory her performances will live for ever. But, as he recounts the story of his existence over more than six centuries, as she learns of his involvement [...]

Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, "e;One is not born, but rather becomes, a[...]

Age and aging are pressing social-political issues. Yet, philosophers still have not paid sufficient attention to one of the major explorations of this topic, Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work The Coming of Age (1970). For much too long, it has been overshadowed by her other groundbreaking work, The[...]

The Talent Runs in the Family . The Painter Helene de Beauvoir As creative and productive as her famous sister Simone was, the painter Helene de Beauvoir (1910 2001) created a multifaceted oeuvre. In her works on paper and paintings she combines abstraction and poetic figuration, striking colorfulne[...]

Dette er Simone de Beauvoirs skildring av egen barndom og ungdomstid i Frankrike tidlig i århundret. Boka regnes som en selvbiografisk roman og skildrer oppvekst i en familie der far er konservativ jurist og mor sterkt katolsk. Simone var kunnskapstørst og visste før hun er 15 at hun skal bli for[...]

I Pyrrhos og Cineas (1944) reflekterer Simone de Beauvoir over vårt møte med den andre, og stiller spørsmål som er grunnleggende for etikk og politikk: Angår andre mennesker meg? Hvem er egentlig min neste? Kan vi handle og tale på andres vegne? Kan vold legitimeres? I Tvetydighetens etikk (19[...]