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Simone de Beauvoir

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French existentialist philosopher and author of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter, who had a notable confrontational encounter with Simone Weil about revolution versus existential purpose.

Mentions (6)
"I declared in no uncertain tones that only one thing mattered in the world today: the Revolution which would feed all the starving people of the earth. I retorted, no less peremptorily, that the problem was not to make men happy, but to find the reason for their existence. She looked me up and down:"
"Maybe im delusional for having this romanticized view of college where people drink prosecco and discuss the Beauvoir readings from their intro to philosophy class, but surely it wasn't always this bad, right?"
Is "college life" dead? · u/NickN0k · ↑40 · 2024-09-02
"Sartre and Beauvoir liked to refer to their entourage as 'the Family,' and the recurring feature of their affairs is a kind of play incest. Their customary method was to adopt a very young woman as a protégée—to take her to movies and cafés, travel with her, help her with her education and career, s"
Sartre and Beauvoir, another cautionary polyamory tale · u/borlud · ↑29 · 2025-10-28
"Maybe im delusional for having this romanticized view of college where people drink prosecco and discuss the Beauvoir readings from their intro to philosophy class"
Is "college life" dead? · u/NickN0k · ↑40 · 2024-09-02
"Sartre and Beauvoir liked to refer to their entourage as "the Family," and the recurring feature of their affairs is a kind of play incest."
Sartre and Beauvoir, another cautionary polyamory tale · u/borlud · ↑29 · 2025-10-28
"Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir"
Graves of Paris · u/SilviusBrabo · ↑22 · 2023-10-01
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