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What Is Existentialism?

Simone de Beauvoir

  • 128 pages · about 2 hours
  • First published 2020
  • 2 editions
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1 About this book

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.

  • Existentialism

2 About Simone de Beauvoir

1908–1986

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.

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