What Simone de Beauvoir really wanted | Sternstunde Philosophie | SRF Kultur

Описание: Feminist pioneer, icon of existentialism: Simone de Beauvoir is the most influential intellectual of the 20th century. And yet her work and life were widely misunderstood. This is what philosopher Kate Kirkpatrick claims, and she explains why Beauvoir must be rediscovered.

In her recently published book «Becoming Beauvoir», the British philosopher Kate Kirkpatrick aims to demonstrate, through Simone de Beauvoir's biography, how de Beauvoir made a much bigger contribution to existentialist theory than has been assumed until now. She also re-evaluates the life of the cultural figure of Simone de Beauvoir. Through her existentialist way of life, de Beauvoir, together with her life and philosophical partner Jean-Paul Sartre, apparently embodied the image of the public intellectual in the 20th century, and her core quote «One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman» still influences feminism today. 70 years after the publication of de Beauvoir's literary milestone «The Second Sex», Kate Kirkpatrick explains to interviewer Wolfram Eilenberger why Simone de Beauvoir must be rediscovered, especially as a philosopher.

Bibliography:
Kate Kirkpatrick: Becoming Beauvoir: A Life. Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 (German translation will come out in April 2020).

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SRF Sternstunde Philosophie, 11th November 2019

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