Be Simone de Beauvoir

Starting from one's own life experience, liberating women

Inspire everyone to "be" who they want to be

◇⊱—The one and only Simon de Beauvoir—⊰◇

See how she extracts philosophical theory from life experience, and lives out life in philosophical theory.

◆Her life is wonderful and moving, including contemplation of freedom, belief in truth, sincere reflection on her own imperfections and fearless criticism, as well as passionate love affairs. She also actually promoted women's rights around the world, enabling women to live for themselves.

◆Re-examine the life of Simone de Beauvoir, the most famous female intellectual in the twentieth century, using previously unpublished materials. It is the most comprehensive and three-dimensional biography at present, with beautiful writing, meticulous and moving.

◆Copyrights in nine languages ​​have been sold, and it is a must-read book for the world to re-understand the integration of Simone de Beauvoir's thought and life at this moment.

Simone de Beauvoir, one of the most famous female intellectuals of the 20th century. People know her book "The Second Sex", which is best-selling all over the world and regarded as the feminist bible; people also know that she actually participated in the French feminist movement, successfully promoted the revision of laws to improve the situation of women, opposed gender discrimination, and even gave birth to the government to establish women's affairs Or, people also know that she has an open relationship with Saudi Arabia. They are unrestrained and romantic, but extremely firm and loyal. This is even hailed as "the greatest love story of the twentieth century."

However, the world also has many misunderstandings about Beauvoir: when "The Second Sex" first came out, she became the object of ridicule, criticism, condemnation, and even humiliation in French society. Sex, bullshit attacks. In the English translation of "The Second Sex", many important parts were deleted and revised, which made people unable to really understand Beauvoir for a long time. It was not until 2010 that the English-speaking world saw "The Second Sex" original overview. People at that time ignored her subjectivity, called her an accessory or mistress of Saudi Arabia, or thought she was shallow, lacking originality, and copied and plagiarized Saudi ideas everywhere.

But in fact, Beauvoir may well have been the one who prompted Saudis to develop existentialism. And under the extremely strong constraints of social traditions, she strives to become a philosopher and writer with unique and original ideas, transforming the difficulties she faces into nutrients, and living out her own subjectivity and initiative through writing. She sincerely faces the good and the bad in the world, criticizes all kinds of defects, and is even willing to reflect on herself. She cares deeply about the female group, and even wrote back to thousands of readers who were encouraged by her to support them in pursuing their own lives. The core of her care is freedom and love, and she hopes that people can and believe that people should let their own philosophical thoughts develop in the flow of time in life, and strive to "be" the self they want to be.

Simone de Beauvoir had already written many memoirs when he was alive, but due to the background of time and space, social concepts and the involvement of others, many details were still hidden and many true feelings were silenced. Kate Kirkpatrick's latest biography "Becoming Simon Beauvois" comprehensively examines Beauvoir's self-reports in the past, synthesizing Beauvoir's diaries and private letters that have only been made public in recent years, complementing the details that have not been seen in the past, and also Clarified all kinds of misunderstandings and criticisms of her by the society and the times, and restored the three-dimensional and dynamic subtle appearance. This book not only allows us to comprehensively and clearly see Beauvoir and her era, see how she struggled to respond to those obstacles and challenges, but also allows us to understand our own era more deeply by examining another soul in a different era with their own values.