September 4, 1998
Scholars Seek to Rank Simone de Beauvoir Among Leading 20th-Century Philosophers
Was the author of 'The Second Sex' Jean-Paul Sartre's mouthpiece or his muse?Simone de Beauvoir never made it easy for the feminists and philosophers who have argued that she is one of the century's most important thinkers.
Succeeding generations of women have found fault with her sweeping claims about gender, let alone the way she conducted her own romantic life.
Although she explored metaphysical themes in her
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