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Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (–)
"La Beauvoir" redirects here. For other uses, see Beauvoir (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Simón Bolívar.
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (, ;[2][3]French:[simɔndəbovwaʁ]ⓘ; 9 January – 14 April ) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist. Though she did not consider herself a philosopher, nor was she considered one at the time of her death,[4][5][6] she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.[7]
Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, short stories, biographies, autobiographies, and monographs on philosophy, politics, and social issues. She was best known for her "trailblazing work in feminist philosophy",[8]The Second Sex (), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She was also known for her novels, the most famous of which were She Came to Stay () and The Mandarins ().
Her most enduring contribution to literature are her memoirs, notably the first volume, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée[9] ().[10] She received the Prix Goncourt,
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Simone de Beauvoir
‘What a lot Lisa Appignanesi has packed into such a slim volume. This is the ideal introduction to Simone de Beauvoir, capturing the woman, the philosopher, the lover, the public intellectual, and the fluidity between these roles. Appignanesi is brilliantly nuanced on the emotional costs of de Beauvoir’s complicated ‘pact’ with Sartre and on the way the philosophy emerged, hard-won, out of the life. It’s a book that’s attentive to de Beauvoir’s times and alive to her urgent relevance to ours.’
Dr Lara Feigel, author of Free Woman
‘… an eloquent, clear-eyed and readable portrait of an immensely complex and brilliant woman’
Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City in Paris, New York, Tokyo, Venice, and London
Simone de Beauvoir () always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. She described their unique partnership as ‘the one undoubted success in my life’. It is, however, her monumental study The Second Sex and her four-volume autobiography which made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement. Above everything in her writing and political activism, she valued her own intellectual honesty.
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