Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity
– Kruks, Sonia. Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity is the first full-length study of Beauvoir’s political thinking. Best known as the author of The Second Sex, Beauvoir also wrote an array of other political and philosophical texts… More
Not Lost in Translation by Christina Hoff Sommers
– Hoff Sommers, Christina. “Not Lost in Translation.” Claremont Review of Books. December 8, 2010.Excerpt: In 1949, Simone de Beauvoir, then 41 years old, created a sensation in Paris with her book The Second Sex. Women, she argued, are half the human race but in all places and times have been accorded second-class status. The culture of femininity,… More
Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence
– Daigle, Christine, and Golomb, Jacob (eds.). Beauvoir & Sartre: The Riddle of Influence. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2009.From the publisher: While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul Sartre still have not been settled definitively. Some continue to… More
Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics of Freedom and Absolute Evil
– Morgan, Anne. “Simone de Beauvoir's Ethics of Freedom and Absolute Evil,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 23(4): 75–89, 2008.Abstract: Simone de Beauvoir held that human experience is intrinsically ambiguous and that there are no values extrinsic to experience, but she also designated some actions as absolute evil. This essay explains how Beauvoir utilized an intrinsic absolute… More
Beauvoir and the Question of a Woman’s Point of View
– Mann, Bonnie. “Beauvoir and the Question of a Woman's Point of View,” Philosophy Today, 52(2): 136–149, 2008.Abstract: Recently, philosophers have taken to announcing a revival or a renaissance in the study of the philosophical work of Simone de Beauvoir. Sonia Kruks argues that feminist Beauvoir studies, having passed through an early ( 1970s) phase in which women… More
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir by Penelope Deutscher
– Deutscher, Penelope. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.From the publisher: Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentrated on her literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work, The Second Sex, and the continued emphasis has been on Beauvoir’s views on gender. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir… More
Is Existentialist Authenticity Unethical? De Beauvoir on Ethics, Authenticity and Embodiment
– Shabot, Sarah Cohen, & Menschenfreund, Yaki. “Is Existentialist Authenticity Unethical? De Beauvoir on Ethics, Authenticity and Embodiment,” Philosophy Today, 52 (2): 150---156, 2008.Abstract: One of the most important problems confronted by existentialist thought clearly appears to be the one referring to the possible contradiction between authenticity and ethics. This problem has not been sufficiently explored in philosophical… More
Re-Reading The Second Sex’s ‘Simone de Beauvoir’
– Grimwood, Tom. “Re-Reading The Second Sex's 'Simone de Beauvoir,'” British Journal for the History of Philosophy, 16(1): 197–213, 2008.Abstract: Referencing ‘Simone de Beauvoir’ is to reference a stage in the history of feminist philosophy; when one cites the name ‘Simone de Beauvoir’, as the signature of The Second Sex, one is also citing not just the context of its original… More
What Do Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Have to Say to Us Today
– Noudelmann, François. “What Do Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir Have to Say to Us Today?” Diogenes, 54(216): 35–39, 2007.Abstract: Sartre’s thought and practice cannot be separated from the experience of the Second World War. Emerging from the war, Sartre formed the idea that the human comes forth out of the subhuman. This paper analyses aspects of Sartre’s humanism… More
A Critique of Simone de Beauvoir’s Existential Ethics
– Braddock, Matthew. “A Critique of Simone de Beauvoir's Existential Ethics,” Philosophy Today, 51(3): 303–311, 2007.Abstract: Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics is very complex. In The Ethics of Ambiguity (1948), her notions of “ambiguity,” “disclosure,” “natural freedom,” “ethical freedom”-taking their departures from Edmund… More
Manliness by Harvey Mansfield
– Mansfield, Harvey. Manliness. New Haven and London, Yale University Press, 2006.Manliness by Harvey Mansfield offers an important analysis and critique of the writings of Simone de Beauvoir. From the publisher: This book invites—no, demands—a response from its readers. It is impossible not to be drawn in to the provocative (often… More
“Beauvoir, Hegel, War”
– Altman, Meryl. “Beauvoir, Hegel, War,” Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, 22(3): 66–91, 2007.Abstract: The importance of Hegel to the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir, both to her early philosophical texts and to The Second Sex, is usually discussed in terms of the master-slave dialectic and a Kojeve-influenced reading, which some see her as sharing… More
An Eye for an Eye: Beauvoir and Levinas on Retributive Justice
– Seltzer, David. “An Eye for an Eye: Beauvoir and Levinas on Retributive Justice,” International Studies in Philosophy, 39(1): 59–77, 2007.Abstract: This paper will compare two very short essays, one by Beauvoir and the other by Levinas, and both titled “An Eye for an Eye” after the passage from Leviticus.
The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir by Emily Grosholz
– Grosholz, Emily. The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.From the publisher: This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir’s thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of her most influential book, The Second Sex. A team of distinguished… More
Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics, and Feminism
– Duran, Jane. Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics, and Feminism. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2006.From the publisher: Spanning over nine hundred years, “Eight Women Philosophers” is the first singly-authored work to trace the themes of standard philosophical theorizing and feminist thought across women philosophers in the Western tradition.… More
Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist
– Podhoretz, Norman. “Simone de Beauvoir as Novelist” in The Norman Podhoretz Reader: A Selection of His Writings from the 1950s through the 1990s. New York and London, Free Press, 2004.From the publisher: Norman Podhoretz “is a thinker and writer and polemicist, a geopolitician and student of religious ideas, an autobiographer of genius, a man who reacts sharply to the news as it pours from the press and the airwaves, who thinks… More
The Other Within: Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir
– Scarth, Fredrika. The Other Within: Ethics, Politics, and the Body in Simone de Beauvoir. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2004.From the publisher: In The Other Within, Fredrika Scarth builds upon the recent studies that have surfaced as part of the Simone de Beauvoir renaissance to offer a reading of The Second Sex as an ethical text. Scarth provides us with a unique and enlightening… More
Genre and Void: Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir
– Deutscher, Max. Genre and Void : Looking Back at Sartre and Beauvoir. Aldershot and Burlington: Ashgate, 2003.From the publisher: Developing a reading of some of Beauvoir and Sartre’s most influential writings in philosophy, Max Deutscher explores contemporary philosophy in the light of the phenomenological tradition within which “Being and… More
Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir
– Heinamaa, Sara. Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 1995.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir’s Le Deuxième Sexe has been studied extensively since its appearance in 1949. Through the years, certain passages have taken on prestige; others are seen as unimportant to understanding Beauvoir’s argument.… More
The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir
– Card, Claudia (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this volume examine the major… More
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God
– Bergoffen, Debra. “Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre: Woman, Man and the Desire to be God”, Constellations,9 (3): 406–418, 2002.Abstract: Beauvoir and Sartre share an existential vocabulary. Both invoke the categories of bad faith and the look, both describe consciousness as a transcendence and a freedom and both refer to freedom as a negating intentionality. Beauvoir’s concept… More
The Body in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir
– Fishwick, Sarah. The Body in the Work of Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford and New York: P. Lang, 2002.From the publisher: This study provides a comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s writings on corporeality. By means of a ‘constructivist’ exploration of the vision of bodily being which is elaborated by Beauvoir in her essay, Le Deuxième… More
Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics
– Holveck, Eleanore. Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Lived Experience: Literature and Metaphysics. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2002.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir developed her philosophy of lived experience as she actually wrote fiction. Hence Beauvoir should be placed among major philosophical novelists of the twentieth-century like Toni Morrison and Nadine Gordimer, and… More
The Bonds of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Ethics
– Arp, Kristana. The Bonds of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir's Existentialist Ethics. Chicago: Open Court Publishing, 2001.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir published a number of philosophical essays and novels before writing The Second Sex. The most important of these was The Ethics of Ambiguity, in which she argues that one’s freedom is always intertwined with that of… More
Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy and Feminism
– Bauer, Nancy. Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy and Feminism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2001.From the publisher: In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that “a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem.” Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking:… More
Menage à trois: Freud, Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade
– Bergoffen, Debra. “Menage à trois: Freud, Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade”, Continental Philosophy Review, 34: 151–163, 2001.Abstract: Without rejecting Simone de Beauvoir’s often cited feminist agenda, this paper takes up her less frequently noted insight – that woman’s existence as the inessential other is more than a consequence of material dependency, and… More
On de Beauvoir
– Scholz, Sally J. On de Beauvoir. Belmont: Wadsworth, 2000.From the publisher: This brief text assists students in understanding De Beauvoir’s philosophy and thinking so that they can more fully engage in useful, intelligent class dialogue and improve their understanding of course content. Part of the… More
Simone de Beauvoir, Gender, and Testimony
– Tidd, Ursula. Simone de Beauvoir, Gender, and Testimony. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.From the publisher: This is the first full-length study to explore Simone de Beauvoir’s autobiographical and biographical writings in the context of her ideas on selfhood as formulated in The Second Sex and other philosophical essays of the 1940s.… More
Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality
– Fraser, Mariam. Identity Without Selfhood: Simone de Beauvoir and Bisexuality, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.From the publisher: Situated at the crossroads of feminism, queer theory, and poststructuralist debates around identity, this is not a book about Simone de Beauvoir, but, rather, a book that addresses the different ways in which she is constructed as an… More
Beauvoir and the Second Sex: Feminism, Race and the Origins of Existentialism
– Simons, Margaret. Beauvoir and the Second Sex: Feminism, Race and the Origins of Existentialism. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.From the publisher: In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir’s philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on BeauvoirOs wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the… More
Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography
– Pilardi, Jo-Ann. Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 1999.From the publisher: The development of Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self are isolated: the existential notion of the self and the gendered self,… More
Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader
– Fallaize, Elizabeth (ed). Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Reader. London and New York: Routledge, 1998.From the publisher: This is the first volume to gather together all the classic critical texts on Simone de Beauvoir’s work as a feminist, novelist and philosopher. The essays are divided into three sections examining her fiction, her life and her… More
Simone de Beauvoir
– Keefe, Terry. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998.From the publisher: Taking account of recent biographies and posthumously-published works, this study sets de Beauvoir’s fiction withing the context of her life and works as a whole, before examining each of her stories in detail: her earliest… More
Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction
– Fullbrook, Edward and Fullbrook, Kate. Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge and Malden: Polity Press, 1998.From the publisher: This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophical thought. Beauvoir has long been recognized as the twentieth century’s leading feminist writer, but the full extent of her… More
Existentialism, Feminism, and Simone de Beauvoir
– Mahon, Joseph and Campling, Jo. Existentialism, Feminism, and Simone de Beauvoir. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays of the 1940s she produced not just a… More
Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’
– Lundgren-Gothlin, Eva. Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Second Sex', translated by Linda Schenck. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press, 1996.From the publisher: An analysis of the philosophical foundations and structure of “The Second Sex”. It reveals not only the influence of Sartre but that of Hegel/Kojeve and Marx/Engels, and reveals how Simone de Beauvoir developed her… More
Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir
– Vintges, Karen. Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Anne Lavelle. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.From the publisher: Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre. Karen Vintges delineates Beauvoir’s independent, original ethics and philosophy, drawing on the… More
The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities
– Bergoffen, Debra. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities. Albany: SUNY Press, 1997.From the publisher: The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities sees Beauvoir as engaged in a three-way conversation with Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Like Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir took up the legacies of the… More
Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir
– Simons, Margaret (ed). Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995.From the publisher: For almost twenty years, feminist readings of Simone de Beauvoir’s feminist classic The Second Sex have been dominated by dismissive interpretation of Beauvoir’s philosophy as Sartrean and phallocentric. Beauvoir’s angry refusal to… More
Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman
– Moi, Toril. Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.From the publisher: In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman, Toril Moi shows how Simone de Beauvoir became the leading feminist thinker and emblematic intellectual woman of the twentieth century. Blending biography with literary criticism,… More
Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend
– Fullbrook, Kate & Fullbrook, Edward. Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend. New York: Basic Books: 1994.From the publisher: He was France’s best-known philosopher & chief arbiter of intellectual fashions; she was the most influential forerunner of today’s feminist movement. Using newly available documentary evidence from diaries & letters,… More
Simone De Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work
– Crosland, Margaret. Simone de Beauvoir: The Woman and Her Work. London: Heinemann, 1992.From the publisher: From 1949, when she wrote “The Second Sex”, until her death in 1986, Simone de Beauvoir was at the centre of French intellectual life. This biography explores de Beauvoir’s relationships with men and women to reveal her… More
Simone de Beauvoir Revisited
– Brosman, Catherine. Simone de Beauvoir Revisited. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1991.Excerpt: In this volume I review and evaluate Beauvoir’s literary, philosophical, and other works in the appropriate critical context by chronological, and generic groupings, against the background of her life and career, which I survey in the first… More
Hipparchia’s Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc.
– Le Doeuff, Michèle. Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, Etc, translated by Trista Selous. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1991.From the publisher: A work of rare insight and irreverence, Hipparchia’s Choice boldly recasts the history of philosophy from the pre-Socratics to the post-Derrideans as one of masculine texts and male problems. The position of women, therefore, is less… More
Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity and Society
– Kruks, Sonia. Situation and Human Existence: Freedom, Subjectivity and Society. New York: Routledge, 1990.From the publisher: This series presents issues which are central to 20th-century European thought, but unfamiliar to students of Anglo-American philosophy. Each book focuses on one concept, providing a brief history and a detailed discussion of its current… More
Feminist Theory and Simone de Beauvoir
– Moi, Toril. Feminist Theory and Simone de Beauvoir. Oxford: Blackwell, 1990.From the publisher: Toril Moi has rapidly acquired a powerful reputation for her lucid, and controversial interventions in feminist debates. This book gives an overview of her intellectual career and an insight into her current work, centering on the writings… More
Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography
– Bair, Deirdre. Simone de Beauvoir: A Biography. New York: Summit Books, 1990.From a review: This impressively researched biography by the author of Samuel Beckett is the most detailed account to date of the life and work of de Beauvoir (1908-1986). Based on many interviews, and discussing each of Beauvoir’s works within the… More
Gendering the Body: Beauvoir’s Philosophical Contribution
– Butler, Judith. “Gendering the Body: Beauvoir's Philosophical Contribution,” in Women, Knowledge, and Reality: Explorations in Philosophy, A. Garry and M. Pearsall (eds.). Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.From the publisher: In recent years feminist philosophers have provided us with an extensive critique of traditional philosophy. In questioning its most fundamental assumptions, they are exposing the inadequacies of theories that ignored gender and the ways… More
The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir
– Fallaize, Elizabeth. The Novels of Simone de Beauvoir. London: Routledge, 1988.From the publisher: This introduction to de Beauvoir’s works of fiction examines her choice of narrative strategies and interprets them both in relation to the sexual politics of writing and to the part which the constraints of history, class and gender… More
Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View
– Winegarten, Renee. Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical View. New York: Berg, 1988.From a review: The subtitle of this study gives fair warning of the demystifing spirit in which Simone de Beauvoir’s biography is to be approached in this text. It is therefore not surprising to read in the first chapter the author’s declaration… More
Simone de Beauvoir
– Appignanesi, Lisa. Simone de Beauvoir, London and New York: Penguin, 1988.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir was a member of the intellectual elite of philosopher-writers whose feminist ideas revolutionised conventional thinking. She is known primarily for her monumental work: The Second Sex, (1949) a scholarly and passionate… More
Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story
– Francis, Claude and Gontier, Fernande. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life, A Love Story, translated by L. Nesselson. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1987.From the publisher: A novelist, philosopher and political activist, Simone de Beauvoir expressed her ideas with a passion and a power that inspired a generation of women to explore their own lives, and to question the values they had been taught. 16 pages of… More
Simone de Beauvoir
– Okely, Judith. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: Pantheon Books, 1986.From the publisher: Judith Okely examines the work of Simone de Beauvoir from two very different points of view. First there is the story of her initial response when she read the SECOND SEX and MEMOIRS in 1960 as a young, naïve and virginal student from… More
Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Mandarin
– Evans, Mary. Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Mandarin. New York: Tavistock, 1985.From a review: This is a brilliant study of the texts of Simone de Beauvoir and the contexts in which they are currently being interpreted. Mary Evans reiterates her respect and admiration for the … More
After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir
– Schwarzer, Alice. After the Second Sex: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir, translated by Marianne Howarth. New York: Pantheon Books, 1984.From the publisher: Conversations with Simone de Beauvoir by Alice Schwarzer. Simone de Beauvoir’s “The Second Sex” became the Bible of modern feminism, just as her life defined a model of women’s liberation for the generation that… More
Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment
– Whitmarsh, Anne. Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1981.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir, whose name is inextricably linked with that of Jean-Paul Sartre, became famous as a leader of the existentialist movement and as a member of a coterie of influential left-wing intellectuals in postwar France. Latterly,… More
Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom
– Ascher, Carol. Simone de Beauvoir: A Life of Freedom. Boston: Beacon Press, 1981.From the publisher: Writer, intellectual adventurer, fighter for personal and political freedom, feminist, and intimate companion to Jean-Paul Sartre for over fifty years, Simone de Beauvoir emerges from this at times highly personal book of philosophical and… More
Hearts and Minds: The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre
– Madsen, Axel. Hearts and Minds: The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre. New York: Morrow, 1977.Form the publisher: Jean-Paul Sartre met Simone de Beauvoir in the spring of 1929.He was 23,she 21,he a city boy,she a country girl. Both were in their last year at the Sorbonne, she in philosophy, he in literature. They quickly became intellectual… More
Simone de Beauvoir
– Cottrell, Robert D. Simone de Beauvoir. New York: F. Ungar, 1975.From the publisher: Relates the French writer’s novels, four-volume autobiography, sociological studies, and other works to her life, the development of her thought, the history of existentialism, and the intellectual life of post-World War II France.
Simone de Beauvoir on Woman
– Leighton, Janet. Simone de Beauvoir on Woman. Cranbury, NJ and London: Associated University Press, 1975.From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir on Woman analyzes de Beauvoir’s novels and her autobiography and compares the women characters and de Beauvoir’s account of her own life with the declarations and theses of her classic in feminist literature,… More
Simone de Beauvoir: Encounters with Death
– Marks, Elaine. Simone de Beauvoir: Encounters With Death. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1973.Excerpt: Simone de Beauvoir is one of the most significant writers of the twentieth century and one of the most popular writers of her generation in France and abroad. Her significance and her popularity are intimately related. Simone de Beauvoir always… More
Beauvoir’s Last Revolt by Edward Grossman
– Grossman, Edward. “Beauvoir’s Last Revolt.” Commentary, August 1, 1972.Abstract: The unrelenting industry of Simone de Beauvoir is astounding, and it is almost as great as that of Sartre. Like her companion, she continues adding to an achievement and a career of a kind that new modes of education, communication, and illiteracy… More