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Simone de Beauvoir

Born in Paris, France in 1908, Simone de Beauvoir was one of the great existentialist philosophers of the twentieth century, an award-winning writer as well as a devoted and significant feminist, although to some her name is recognizable merely (and ironically, given her feminism) because she was the life long partner of Jean Paul Sartre, the most famous existentialist of them all.

Simone de Beauvoir was a passionate writer who covered a broad range of issues such as ethics, politics and feminism. She wrote fiction as well as biographical works like La Cérémonie Des Adieux (A Farewell to Sartre), a heartfelt tribute to the last years of his life. Her intellectual influences and approaches were also numerable, and in her work can be felt the presence of figures as diverse as Rene Descartes, Immanuel Kant, Karl Marx and Martin Heidegger. The book she is arguably most remembered for is Le Deuxième Sexe (The Second Sex), in which her existentialist beliefs co-mingled with her views regarding women’s oppression to form a work that was explosive in its day and still remains debated through the present.

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Hard Times: Force of Circumstances, 1952-1962 by Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir

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