What Is Existentialism? by Simone De Beauvoir
'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.
One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.
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On the Shortness of Life
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Why I Write
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Meditations
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A Room of One's Own
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The Myth of Sisyphus
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The Prince
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Books v. Cigarettes
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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Civilization and its Discontents
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
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Imperialism: The Highest Stage of Capitalism
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Fear and Trembling
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On the Suffering of the World
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Why Look at Animals?
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The Communist Manifesto
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When I Dare to Be Powerful
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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For
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How To Be a Stoic
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Of Human Freedom
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Night Walks
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Man Alone with Himself
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On Suicide
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On Art and Life
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Eichmann and the Holocaust
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Useful Work v. Useless Toil
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Tao Te Ching
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On Liberty
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The Horrors and Absurdities of Religion
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Confessions of a Sinner
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The City of Ladies
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Nature
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The Art of War
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Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
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On Friendship
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On the Pleasure of Hating
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The Sickness Unto Death
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God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him.
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On Solitude
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Decline of the English Murder
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Utopia
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A Confession
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Days of Reading
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The Power of Words
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The Social Contract
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Anarchist Communism
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Three Japanese Buddhist Monks
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The Freedom to Be Free
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'Invitée, was published in 1943. In 1945 she published Le Sang des autres, a novel dealing with the question of political involvement. De Beauvoir's breakthrough work was the semi-autobiographical Les Mandarins (1954), which won the Prix Goncourt. 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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| ISBN 13 | 9780241475232 |
| ISBN 10 | 0241475236 |
| Title | What Is Existentialism? |
| Author | Simone De Beauvoir |
| Series | Penguin Great Ideas |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-09-24 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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