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Simone de Beauvoir
1. Life and Works
Simone de Beauvoir was born on January 9, 1908 in Paris, France. Her parents, Georges Bertrand de Beauvoir and Françoise (née) Brasseur provided Beauvoir and her younger sister Hélène, often referred to by her nickname “Poupette,” with a traditional bourgeois, Catholic upbringing. Beauvoir spent much of her childhood rebelling against the values of her faith and bourgeois ideology. The disdain for the latter would continue throughout her adult life. In her childhood, Beauvoir vowed to never become a housewife or mother and admired her father’s intelligence. He introduced the young Beauvoir to great works of literature and encouraged her to write. She pursued this out of her own interest, writing stories and keeping diaries throughout her girlhood, and more formally in her educational training at the private Catholic school for girls, the Institut Adeline Désir. At school, she formed an intim
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The Life of Simone de Beauvoir
Alois Prinz
The Life of Simone de Beauvoir / Das Leben der Simone de Beauvoir
The Queen of Existentialism
130,000 copies sold of Hannah Arendt oder Die Liebe zur Welt
Simone de Beauvoir spent her life fighting myths, prejudices and habits. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman is the sentence that made her famous. But Beauvoir herself has become a myth: an icon of feminism, a model of the modern, emancipated woman, the queen of existentialism, a self-confident partner at the side of Jean-Paul Sartre. Yet she did not want to romanticise anything about her life. According to her conviction that one must not hide anything, must reveal...
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Simone de Beauvoir spent her life fighting myths, prejudices and habits. One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman is the sentence that made her famous. But Beauvoir herself has become a myth: an icon of feminism, a model of the modern, emancipated woman, the queen of existentialism,
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Simone de Beauvoir
French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)
"La Beauvoir" redirects here. For other uses, see Beauvoir (disambiguation).
Not to be confused with Simón Bolívar.
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand dem Beauvoir (, ;[2][3]French:[simɔndəbovwaʁ]ⓘ; 9 January 1908 – 14 April 1986) 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 (1949), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of co