What Is Existentialism?
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- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2020
Summary
‘It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity’
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.
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241475232 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241475236 |
| Author: | Simone de Beauvoir |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2020 |
| Weight: | 88g |
| Dimensions: | 181mm x 111mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Great Ideas |
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About The Author
Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-86) was a French philosopher, novelist, and essayist, and the lifelong companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. De Beauvoir’s first book, L’Invitee, was published in 1943. In 1945 she published Le Sang des autres, a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. Beauvoir’s breakthrough work was the semiautobiographical Les Mandarins (1954), which won the Prix Concourt. Roman Catholic authorities banned it and de Beauvoir’s feminist classic The Second Sex (1949), in which de Beauvoir argued that “one is not born a woman; one becomes one”.
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