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The prime of life : the autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir; Peter Green (Translator); Toril Moi (Introduction by) Sex, Love, and Letters by Judith G. Coffin; Simone de Beauvoir by Deirdre Bair; Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age by Silvia Stoller (Editor) Tête-à-Tête by Hazel Rowley; We Are Not Born Submissive by ...
The Second Sex (French: Le Deuxième Sexe) is a 1949 book by the French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir, in which the author discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history.
Main menu. Main menu. ... Download as PDF; ... Tête-à-tête is a 2006 non-fiction book by Hazel Rowley about the lives of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.
In the immediate postwar period, Simone de Beauvoir stood in opposition to an image of "the woman in the home". De Beauvoir provided an existentialist dimension to feminism with the publication of Le Deuxième Sexe ( The Second Sex ) in 1949. [ 25 ]
The book discusses the ideas of the phenomenologist Edmund Husserl, and how his teaching influenced the rise of existentialism through the likes of Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, who are the main protagonists of the book. Bakewell takes readers on an intellectual journey, intertwining biographical narratives with ...
Les Temps Modernes (lit. ' Modern Times ') was a French journal, founded by Simone de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.Its first issue was published in October 1945.
The major theme of The Blood of Others is the relation between the free individual and 'the historically unfolding world of brute facts and other men and women.' [1] Or as one of Beauvoir's biographers puts it, her 'intention was to express the paradox of freedom experienced by an individual and the ways in which others, perceived by the individual as objects, were affected by his actions and ...
America Day by Day is a 1948 book by Simone de Beauvoir chronicling her trip by road across the United States of America over four months in 1947. [1] [2] It was published in French in 1948 with an English translation in 1953.