What Is Existentialism?
The groundbreaking writings on the philosophy of the individual by iconic feminist and social thinker, Simone de Beauvoir
How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives--and upended them. Now Penguin brings you a new set of the acclaimed Great Ideas, a curated library of selections from…
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June 8, 2021SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second on the exam to Jean-Paul Sartre. de Beauvoir taught at lycées in Marseille and Rouen from 1931 to 1937, and in Paris from 1938 to 1943. After World War II, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps modernes. The author of many acclaimed works, de Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986.
What Is Existentialism?
Simone de Beauvoir; Translated by Marybeth Timmermann
The Independent Woman
Simone De Beauvoir
The Second Sex
Simone de Beauvoir newly translated by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany
The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde
What Is Existentialism?
Simone De Beauvoir
One Swallow Does Not Make a Summer
Aristotle
Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
Various
Anarchist Communism
Peter Kropotkin
God Is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Bushido
Inazo Nitobe
Ain't I a Woman?
Sojourner Truth
Suffragette Manifestos
Various
On Solitude
Michel de Montaigne
Great Ideas V On Liberty
John Stuart Mill
Great Ideas V Night Walks
Charles Dickens
Great Ideas Some Thoughts On the Common Toad
George Orwell
The Position of Spoons
Deborah Levy
Salvage
Dionne Brand
Some of My Best Friends
Tajja Isen
Novelist as a Vocation
Haruki Murakami
Burning Questions
Margaret Atwood
A Guest at the Feast
Colm Tóibín
Languages of Truth
Salman Rushdie
Real Estate
Deborah Levy
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Year of the Monkey
Patti Smith
Bread Out of Stone
Dionne Brand
Sonnet's Shakespeare
Sonnet L'Abbé
My Seditious Heart
Arundhati Roy
See What Can Be Done
Lorrie Moore