Simone de Beauvoir, born in 1908 in Paris, was the older of two daughters of a strict Catholic couple, and as a child dreamed of becoming a nun. Instead, she lost her faith when she was 14 and by her ...

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...

Deirdre Bair, who as an unknown writer half a century ago scored a coup by getting the reclusive Samuel Beckett to agree to let her write his biography, then secured the same permission from another ...

More welcome than the arrival of roses and bare legs and platform sandals this spring is the new edition of Simone de Beauvoir’s wild and unruly masterpiece, The Second Sex, which should be read much ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In this new biography academic Kate Kirkpatrick uses recently translated materials to mount a spirited defence of Simone de Beauvoir’s ...

Could existentialism be ripe for a comeback? Today’s young people have been described as “the most fluid generation in history”, so perhaps GenZ are in tune with the convention-flouting, ...

During the 1980s, fresh out of high school, I embarked on a six-month adventure to Paris, teaching German and English to a 12-year-old girl and exploring the city of Balzac, Rodin and the American ...

Simone de Beauvoir was one of the most distinguished French existentialist philosophers and writers. Working alongside other famed existentialists such as Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus and Maurice ...

Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter traces the philosopher's early years. For all Simone de Beauvoir's achievements, she's still best known for being French philosopher Jean-Paul ...