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Category: Works by Simone de Beauvoir. 11 languages. ... Books by Simone de Beauvoir (2 C, 3 P) E. Essays by Simone de Beauvoir ...
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (UK: / d ə ˈ b oʊ v w ɑːr /, US: / d ə b oʊ ˈ v w ɑːr /; [2] [3] French: [simɔn də bovwaʁ] ⓘ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) was a French existentialist philosopher, writer, social theorist, and feminist activist.
Works by Simone de Beauvoir (2 C) Pages in category "Simone de Beauvoir" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect ...
Pages in category "Books by Simone de Beauvoir" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
The Ethics of Ambiguity (French: Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté) is Simone de Beauvoir's second major non-fiction work. It was prompted by a lecture she gave in 1945, where she claimed that it was impossible to base an ethical system on her partner Jean-Paul Sartre 's major philosophical work Being and Nothingness ( French : L'Être et le ...
The Mandarins (French: Les Mandarins) is a 1954 roman à clef by Simone de Beauvoir, for which she won the Prix Goncourt, awarded to the best and most imaginative prose work of the year, in 1954. The Mandarins was first published in English in 1956 (in a translation by Leonard M. Friedman).
The philosophers of authenticity: Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir at the memorial to Honoré de Balzac. Authenticity in art is manifested in the different ways that a work of art, or an artistic performance, can be considered authentic. [1] The initial distinction is between nominal authenticity and expressive authenticity.
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 ...