PhilosophersSimone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir
One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.
Existentialism · Feminist philosophy1908 – 1986 FranceExistentialist philosopherTheorist of feminismMoral philosopherCommitted intellectual
1943
She Came to Stay
First novel. Not in our corpus.
1944
Pyrrhus and Cineas
First essay in existentialist ethics, before The Ethics of Ambiguity. We found no free text.
1947
The Ethics of Ambiguity essential
Written and published by her. We only have chapter I, "Ambiguity and Freedom", in English (Frechtman, 1948): the French text is not in our corpus.
1949
The Second Sex essential
Written and published by her, in two volumes (I: Facts and Myths; II: Lived Experience). We have the Introduction to volume I and the chapter "Childhood" of volume II. The rest of the book (biology, psychoanalysis, historical materialism, history, myths, woman's life) is not collected. She discusses many other authors in it: check who is speaking.
1954
The Mandarins
A novel about postwar intellectuals. Not in our corpus.