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Kate Kirkpatrick on the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir

2019/7/8
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In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast), Kate Kirkpatrick), author of a new biography of Beauvoir, Becoming Beauvoir, discusses the relationship between the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir is often portrayed as applying Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism to the condition of women. Is this a fair assessment?

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