Philosophy · 19 min
Becoming Beauvoir
By Kate Kirkpatrick
This episode explores Simone de Beauvoir's life as a living laboratory for her philosophy of self-creation, revealing that true existence is a continuous, often messy, process of becoming.
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Philosophy
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19 min
What it is about
Self-creation, existentialism, identity, freedom
Who it is for
If you've ever felt the quiet pressure to present a 'finished' self, even while still navigating your own evolving identity, this will resonate, and this will help you see what to do next.
The author
Kate Kirkpatrick, a philosopher and leading Beauvoir scholar, draws on newly available letters and diaries to reveal the philosopher's life as a continuous, often contradictory, experiment in living her own ideas.
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