Simone de Beauvoir was the writer of The Second Sex, led the vanguard of mid-twentieth-century feminism, and was central to the circle of French existentialists. But how relevant is she today? We revisit de Beauvoir’s most famous works and consider her role in contemporary philosophy. We look at new translations of her fiction and ask how critical intersectional approaches might challenge how we think about her ideas.
Speakers
• 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗿𝘆𝗻 𝗦𝗼𝗽𝗵𝗶𝗮 𝗕𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University
• 𝗦𝗸𝘆𝗲 𝗖𝗹𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘆, Lecturer, Barnard College
• 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗻 𝗘𝗹𝗸𝗶𝗻, Writer and translator
• 𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗞𝗶𝗿𝗸𝗽𝗮𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗸, Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford
Chair
• 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗵𝗶𝗱𝗵𝗮 𝗕𝗮𝗿𝗶, Fellow, Forum for Philosophy & Professor, University of the Arts London
Recorded on 8 November 2021
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