Philosopher
Simone de Beauvoir
Overview
Simone Lucie Ernestine Marie Bertrand de Beauvoir (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, she had a significant influence on both feminist existentialism and feminist theory.
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", The Second Sex (1949), a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a foundational tract of contemporary feminism. She was also known for her novels, the most famous of which were She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954).
Her most enduring contribution to literature is her memoirs, notably the first volume, Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (1958). She received the 1954 Prix Goncourt, the 1975 Jerusalem Prize, and the 1978 Austrian State Prize for European Literature. She was also nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961, 1969 and 1973. However, Beauvoir generated controversy when she briefly lost her teaching job after being accused of sexually abusing some of her students.
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Philosophers who discussed Simone de Beauvoir
- Feminism
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Judith Butler
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Simone Weil
- Michel Onfray
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Marquis de Sade
- Bertrand Russell
- Friedrich Engels
- Michel Foucault
- Catharine A. MacKinnon
- Emmanuel Levinas
- Albert Camus
- Léon Brunschvicg
- Nicos Poulantzas
- Miranda Fricker
- Mary Daly
- Women in classical Athens
- Transgender studies
- Alain (philosopher)
- Benny Lévy
- Max Charlesworth
Ideas Simone de Beauvoir discusses
- Feminist theory
- Fascism
- Feminism
- The Feminine Mystique
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Judith Butler
- Atheism
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Transcendence (philosophy)
- Simone Weil
- The Observer
- Being and Nothingness
- Germaine Greer
- The Guardian
- Maurice Merleau-Ponty
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Thomas Aquinas
- Paris
- Patriarchy
- Donna Haraway
- Nobel Prize in Literature
- Immanence
- Psychotherapy
Place in the tradition
Part of Aesthetics.