The Mandarins

Name: The Mandarins
Author: Simone de Beauvoir

by Simone de Beauvoir

Existential novel about intellectuals navigating politics and commitment

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Simone de Beauvoir

French existentialist philosopher, novelist, and feminist whose The Second Sex is the founding text of modern feminism. The Ethics of Ambiguity developed an existentialist ethics; her memoirs are major works of 20th-century autobiography. Her lifelong partnership with Sartre was itself a philosophical experiment.

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The Second SexFeminist philosophical treatise on women's existence, freedom, and autonomy
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