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Becoming Beauvoir
This episode explores Simone de Beauvoir's life as a living laboratory for her philosophy of self-creation, revealing that true existence is a continuous, often messy, process of becoming.
“This episode explores Simone de Beauvoir's life as a living laboratory for her philosophy of self-creation, revealing that true existence is a continuous, often messy, process of becoming.”
— Kate Kirkpatrick, Becoming Beauvoir
Self-creation, existentialism, identity, freedom
If you've ever felt the quiet pressure to present a 'finished' self, even while still navigating your own evolving identity, this will resonate, and this will help you see what to do next.
Kate Kirkpatrick, a philosopher and leading Beauvoir scholar, draws on newly available letters and diaries to reveal the philosopher's life as a continuous, often contradictory, experiment in living her own ideas.