Simone De Beauvoir: 26 books

Book cover of The Ethics of Ambiguity
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018

From the groundbreaking author of The Second Sex comes a radical argument for ethical responsibility and freedom. In this classic introduction to existentialist thought, French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir’s The Ethics of Ambiguity simultaneously pays homage to and grapples with her French...
Book cover of Ein sanfter Tod
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: German
Release Date: January 2, 2014

"Simone de Beauvoir gehört zu jenen außergewöhnlichen Menschen, die ihre Zeit geprägt haben. Ihr Leben, ihre Werke und ihre Kämpfe haben zum Fortschritt des Bewußtseins der Männer und Frauen von heute in Frankreich und in der Welt beigetragen." (François Mitterrand) "Eines der...
Book cover of Adieux

Adieux

A Farewell to Sartre

by Simone De Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

Simone de Beauvoir’s account of the last ten years of Jean-Paul Sartre’s life provides a focus for understanding one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. But the book, consisting of both a year-by-year account of Sartre’s last decade and a conversation between him and de Beauvoir...
Book cover of The Woman Destroyed
by Simone De Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

In three “immensely intelligent stories about the decay of passion” (The Sunday Herald Times [London]), Simone de Beauvoir draws us into the lives of three women, all past their first youth, all facing unexpected crises. Enthralling as faction, suffused with de Beauvoir’s remarkable insights into women, The Woman Destroyed gives us a legendary writer at her best.
Book cover of The Second Sex
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012

Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western notion of “woman,” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Unabridged in English for the first time, this long-awaited edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that...
Book cover of Must We Burn de Sade?
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015

Simone de Beauvoir's essay was originally published in French as Faut-il brûler Sade? in Les Temps Modernes, December, 1951 and January, 1952. This work led to a renewed interest in the notorious author.
Book cover of Soll man de Sade verbrennen?

Soll man de Sade verbrennen?

Drei Essays zur Moral des Existenzialismus

by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2014

Simone de Beauvoir ist nicht nur eine eigenwillige und geistreiche Schriftstellerin, sondern auch eine glänzende Vertreterin des Existenzialismus Sartre'scher Prägung. Sie beschränkt sich keineswegs darauf, die Gedanken des großen französischen Philosophen und Schriftstellers zu popularisieren,...
Book cover of Marcelle, Chantal, Lisa ...

Marcelle, Chantal, Lisa ...

Ein Roman in Erzählungen

by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Der erste Roman einer der größten Autorinnen und Philosophinnen des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. De Beauvoirs erzählerisches "Gesellenstück" ist ein Roman über fünf Töchter aus gutem Hause: "Ich rebellierte damals gegen Intellekt und starre Bildung, die mich lange unterdrückt hatten,...
Book cover of A Very Easy Death
by Simone De Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013

A Very Easy Death has long been considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces. The profoundly moving, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s death “shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence” (The Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching, and sometimes shocking,...
Book cover of Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016

A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking...
Book cover of Die Mandarins von Paris
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: German
Release Date: October 1, 2013

Mit diesem Werk, dem die höchste literarische Auszeichnung Frankreichs, der Prix Goncourt, zugesprochen wurde, schrieb Simone de Beauvoir den Schlüsselroman der französischen Linksintellektuellen. Er ist zugleich politisches Tagebuch und faszinierender Frauenroman, der private Schicksale und Zeitgeschichte...
Book cover of Die Welt der schönen Bilder
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: German
Release Date: January 17, 2014

Mit Schärfe und Ironie schildert Simone de Beauvoir die Gesellschaft der Neureichen, in der Gefühle zu Werbespots werden. Die Menschen dieses Romans ersticken an den Lügen und Heucheleien der spätkapitalistischen Welt, beherrscht von Statussymbolen, von "schönen Bildern".
Book cover of Amerika Tag und Nacht

Amerika Tag und Nacht

Reisetagebuch 1947

by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: German
Release Date: February 27, 2015

Eine glänzende, intime Reportage über das geistige Amerika. Eine Reise durch den gewaltigen Kontinent, kreuz und quer, im Pullman, im Greyhound, im Flugzeug, im Auto, hat die berühmte französische Autorin Simone de Beauvoir gerade mit der Schicht des amerikanischen Volks in Gespräch und Verbindung...
Book cover of Il secondo sesso
by Simone de Beauvoir
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 3, 2013

Nel 1949 esce «Il secondo sesso» che fece, allo stesso tempo, successo e scandalo. Con veemenza da polemista di razza, de Beauvoir passa in rassegna i ruoli attribuiti dal pensiero maschile alla donna e i relativi attributi. In questo saggio l'autrice si esprime in un linguaggio nuovo, parla di...
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