Kate Kirkpatrick on the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir

Philosophy Bites

Nigel Warburton

Education, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, Kate Kirkpatrick, author of a new biography of Beauvoir, Becoming Beauvoir, discusses the relationship between the life and work of Simone de Beauvoir. Beauvoir is often portrayed as applying Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism to the condition of women. Is this a fair assessment?

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0:00.0	This is
0:02.0	this is philosophy bites with me David Edmonds and me Nigel Warton.
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0:14.4	We live in an increasingly uncertain and complex world
0:18.0	with a casual attitude towards objective facts.
0:20.7	Citizens often don't know what the truth is or where to find it.
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0:41.0	Learn more at W. W. Mark Sanders Foundation.org and that's Mark with a C.
0:47.0	M A R C Sanders Foundation.org. The best known book of the French philosopher Simone de Beauvoir is The Second Sex
0:58.1	published in 1949. Bovoir was an existentialist and a feminist.
1:03.0	She had a long relationship with another philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre.
1:07.0	That's relevant for how her work has been read.
1:10.0	There's a famous line in The Second Sex. One is not born but rather becomes a woman.
1:16.0	But is that the correct translation?
1:19.0	Kate Kirkpatrick has written a biography of Bovoir and believes a study of her life can help
1:25.1	us interpret her philosophy.
1:27.5	Kate Kirkpatrick, welcome to Philosophy Bites.
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