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She Came to Stay

– She Came to Stay. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.,1954. English translation of L'Invitée (Paris: Gallimard, 1943).
From the publisher: Set in Paris on the eve of World War II and sizzling with love, anger, and revenge, She Came to Stay explores the changes wrought in the soul of a woman and a city soon… More

Pyrrhus and Cinéas

– Pyrrhus et Cinéas. Paris: Gallimard, 1944.
From the publisher: Pyrrhus and Cineas is Simone de Beauvoir’s first philosophical essay. It was published in 1944, and in it, she makes a philosophical inquiry into the human… More

The Blood of Others

– The Blood of Others. Translated by Roger Senhouse and Yvonne Moyse. New York: Pantheon Books, 1948. English translation of Le sang des autres (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).
Beauvoir examines the lives of different characters in pre-war Paris.

Who Shall Die?

– Who Shall Die? Translated by Claude Francis and Fernande Gontier. Florissant: River Press, 1983. English translation of Les bouches inutiles (Paris: Gallimard, 1945).
Beauvoir only wrote one play, Les Bouches Inutiles (Who Shall Die?) which was performed in 1945-the same year of the founding of Les Temps Modernes. Clearly enmeshed in the issues of World… More

The Second Sex

– The Second Sex. Translated by H. M. Parshley. New York: Vintage Books, 1989. English translation of Le deuxième sexe (Paris: Gallimard, 1949).
Excerpt: For a long time I have hesitated to write a book on woman. The subject is irritating, especially to women; and it is not new. Enough ink has been spilled in quarrelling over… More

America Day by Day

– America Day by Day. Translated by Carol Cosman. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990. English translation of L'Amérique au jour le jour (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).
From the publisher: Here is the ultimate American road book, one with a perspective unlike that of any other. In January 1947 Simone de Beauvoir landed at La Guardia airport and began a… More

The Mandarins

– The Mandarins. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1991. English translation of Les mandarins (Paris: Gallimard, 1954).
From the publisher: In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally… More

Must We Burn Sade?

– Must We Burn Sade? Translated by Annette Michelson, The Marquis de Sade. New York: Grove Press, 1966. English translation of Faut-il brûler Sade? (Paris: Gallimard, 1955).
“Must We Burn Sade?”, a translation of “Faut-il bruler Sade?”, was originally published in ‘Les Temps Moderne’, December 1951 and January 1952. … More

The Long March

– The Long March. Translated by Austryn Wainhouse. New York: The World Publishing, 1958. English translation of La longue marche (Paris: Gallimard, 1957).
From the publisher: Beauvoir turns her attention eastward to China and paints a masterly picture of that nation in modern times. Honest and detailed, it comes from de Beauvoir’s… More

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

– Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter. Translated by James Kirkup. Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1963. English translation of Mémoires d'une jeune fille rangée (Paris: Gallimard, 1958).
From the publisher: A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir’s Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture… More

The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir

– The Prime of Life. Translated by Peter Green. New York: Lancer Books, 1966. English translation of La force de l'âge (Paris: Gallimard, 1960).
From the publisher: The author recalls her life in Paris in the formative years of 1929 to 1944, telling of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre and of Parisian intellectual life of the… More

In Defense of Djamila Boupacha

– "In Defense of Djamila Boupacha." Le Monde, 3 June, 1960. Appendix B in Djamila Boupacha: The Story of the Torture of a Young Algerian Girl which Shocked Liberal French Opinion; Introduction to Djamila Boupacha. Edited by Simone de Beauvoir and Gisèle Halimi. Translated by Peter Green. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1962. English translations of Djamila Boupacha (Paris: Gallimard, 1962).
Originally a 1960 Le Monde article looking at the treatment of 23 year old Algerian Djamila Boupacha.

The Ethics of Ambiguity

– The Ethics of Ambiguity. Translated by Bernard Frechtman. New York: Citadel Press, 1996. English translation of Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté (Paris: Gallimard, 1947). Beauvoir, Simone de Beauvoir, Simone de. Force of Circumstance, Vol. I: After the War, 1944-1952; Vol. 2: Hard Times, 1952-1962. Translated by Richard Howard. New York: Paragon House, 1992. English translation of La force des choses (Paris: Gallimard, 1963).
In her 1947 book The Ethics of Ambiguity, Simone de Beauvoir outlines an existentialist ethics.

A Very Easy Death

– A Very Easy Death. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1965. English translation of Une mort très douce (Paris: Gallimard, 1964).
From the publisher: A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the… More

The Woman Destroyed

– The Woman Destroyed. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1969. English translation of La femme rompue (Paris: Gallimard, 1967).
In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all… More

The Coming of Age

– The Coming of Age. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1996. English translation of La vieillesse (Paris: Gallimard, 1970).
From the publisher: What do the words elderly, old, and aged really mean? How are they used by society, and how in turn do they define the generation that we are taught to respect and love… More

When Things of the Spirit Come First

– When Things of the Spirit Come First. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. New York: Pantheon Books, 1982. English translation of Quand prime le spirituel (Paris: Gallimard, 1979).
From the publisher: This is a collection of semi-autobiographical tales written when the author was only 30, before World War II. Each tale concerns a young woman struggling with the… More

Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre

– Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre. Translated by Patrick O'Brian. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986. English translation of La cérémonie des adieux (Paris: Gallimard, 1981).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth… More

Letters to Sartre

– Letters to Sartre. Translated and Edited by Quintin Hoare. London: Vintage, 1992. English translation of Lettres à Sartre (Paris: Gallimard, 1990).
From the publisher: Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre formed one of the most famous literary couples of the twentieth century. Their relationship took on the quality of legend and… More

All Men are Mortal

– All Men are Mortal. Translated by Leonard M. Friedman. New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1992. English translation of Tous les Hommes sont Mortels (Paris: Gallimard, 1946).
From the publisher: Probably de Beauvoir’s strangest and most compelling novel, this is the captivating story of a beautiful young actress who revives a downcast stranger at a French… More

A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren

– A Transatlantic Love Affair: Letters to Nelson Algren. Compiled and annotated by Sylvie le Bon de Beauvoir. New York: The New Press, 1998.
From the publisher: In 1947, Simone de Beauvoir met Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Nelson Algren in Chicago, and it was love at first sight. A passionate affair ensued, spanning twenty… More

Commentary

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… 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… More

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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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. … 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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,… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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;… 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… 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… 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… 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… More

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… 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.

“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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… 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… More

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,… More

Multimedia

Naomi Wolf and Harvey Mansfield Debate Feminism

– After Words with Harvey Mansfield and Naomi Wolf.  C-SPAN.  March 15, 2006.
Professor Mansfield was interviewed by Ms. Wolf about his book Manliness, published by Yale University Press. He explained that the book was his answer to the question, “What is… More

Simone de Beauvoir Today

– Simone de Beauvoir Today.  Duke Univeristy.  September 23, 2011.
The symposium, held at Duke University in September 23, 2011, commemorated the 25th death anniversary of 20th century’s leading feminist theorist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir… More

Simone de Beauvoir Master-Mind Lecture at the British Academy

– Toril Moi.  "Simone de Beauvoir."  The British Academy.  March 20, 2014.
The British Academy Master-Mind Lecture delivered by Professor Toril Moi on March 20 2014 at the British Academy in London. Join Professor Moi as she discusses Simone de Beauvoir, a… More

Harvey Mansfield and Bill Kristol on Feminism

– Harvey Mansfield on Conservatism, Constitutionalism, and Feminism.  Conversations with Bill Kristol.  2014.
A discussion of American conservatism, the Federalist, and the problem of feminism with the Harvard government professor.  The discussion on feminism begins at 1:01:29.