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Latest issue of Sartre Studies International out now!
Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.
Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...
Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.
Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...
Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
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I'm giving an online talk on Saturday morning with the
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
:: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging ::
mainly Beauvoir and Sartre
with some Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Everyone is welcome!
Booking is here: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
:: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging ::
mainly Beauvoir and Sartre
with some Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Everyone is welcome!
Booking is here: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb
November 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
I'm giving an online talk on Saturday morning with the
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
:: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging ::
mainly Beauvoir and Sartre
with some Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Everyone is welcome!
Booking is here: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb
Southern Association for Psychotherapy and Counselling
:: Bad Faith, Bullshit, and Belonging ::
mainly Beauvoir and Sartre
with some Kierkegaard and Heidegger
Everyone is welcome!
Booking is here: bit.ly/SAPCbfbb
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15 November 1945:
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
15 November 1945:
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
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“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
November 15, 2025 at 4:15 PM
“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.”
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
—Simone de Beauvoir
In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café
‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
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24 October 1945:
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
October 24, 2025 at 7:26 AM
24 October 1945:
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience.
From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.
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Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon - our latest Philosophy Bites interview philosophybites.com/podcast/lewi...
Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon - Philosophy Bites
Frantz Fanon, who was born in Martinique, died aged 36. He nevertheless made very significant contributions to the discussion of racism and colonialism, influenced strongly by the existentialist tradi...
philosophybites.com
October 24, 2025 at 5:17 AM
Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon - our latest Philosophy Bites interview philosophybites.com/podcast/lewi...
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Here, I review the final instalment of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s student diary as well as Margaret A. Simons’s treatment of the sexual assault it alludes to.
The latest issue of Sartre Studies International has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 31, Issue 1 here: bit.ly/4pC8gX1
Featuring a Review Essay by @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social
@uksartresociety.bsky.social
Featuring a Review Essay by @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social
@uksartresociety.bsky.social
September 30, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Here, I review the final instalment of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s student diary as well as Margaret A. Simons’s treatment of the sexual assault it alludes to.
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1 October 1945:
The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board.
The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.
The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board.
The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.
October 1, 2025 at 6:26 AM
1 October 1945:
The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board.
The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.
The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board.
The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.
Latest issue of Sartre Studies International out now!
Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.
Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...
Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.
Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...
Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
September 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Latest issue of Sartre Studies International out now!
Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.
Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...
Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.
Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...
Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
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It is 80 years since Beauvoir and Sartre gave the word 'existentialism' a definition ...
... in a campaign of publications and events that Beauvoir later called 'the existentialist offensive'.
To celebrate, this feed will mark each key moment (including political events) for the next three months.
... in a campaign of publications and events that Beauvoir later called 'the existentialist offensive'.
To celebrate, this feed will mark each key moment (including political events) for the next three months.
September 27, 2025 at 9:26 AM
It is 80 years since Beauvoir and Sartre gave the word 'existentialism' a definition ...
... in a campaign of publications and events that Beauvoir later called 'the existentialist offensive'.
To celebrate, this feed will mark each key moment (including political events) for the next three months.
... in a campaign of publications and events that Beauvoir later called 'the existentialist offensive'.
To celebrate, this feed will mark each key moment (including political events) for the next three months.
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It might not make you all quite as jubilant, but this news made my heart jump this week: in April 2026 Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex will be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection—a significant recognition of the work & of feminist philosophy in the cultural canon!
September 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
It might not make you all quite as jubilant, but this news made my heart jump this week: in April 2026 Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex will be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection—a significant recognition of the work & of feminist philosophy in the cultural canon!
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Coming soon ––
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
September 9, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Coming soon ––
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::
–– contents pages are in the thread below.
#philsky
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'This is the Simone de Beauvoir Society' fits to that song in The Italian Job, in case you're wondering what will be looping through your mind 5 hours from now
Listen up! Submit your abstract for the 2026 Beauvoir Society conference on "Beauvoir & Reproduction: Politics, Labour, Biology, Lived Experience"🔥
Proposal abstracts are due **September 22, 2025**
Conference is May 2026 in Klagenfurt, Austria
Keynotes: Sylvie Chaperon & Stella Sandford
Proposal abstracts are due **September 22, 2025**
Conference is May 2026 in Klagenfurt, Austria
Keynotes: Sylvie Chaperon & Stella Sandford
2026 Conference
Pour la version française , choisir le drapeau français en haut à gauche du site !
beauvoir.weebly.com
September 7, 2025 at 2:35 PM
'This is the Simone de Beauvoir Society' fits to that song in The Italian Job, in case you're wondering what will be looping through your mind 5 hours from now
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In 1984, HBO made a three-hour TV film of it starring Jodie Foster, which was then edited down for the French market into a 40-minute cinema release with dubbed dialogue.
August 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In 1984, HBO made a three-hour TV film of it starring Jodie Foster, which was then edited down for the French market into a 40-minute cinema release with dubbed dialogue.
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80 years ago today ...
1 August 1945
Beauvoir published her second novel, Le Sang des autres. Set in Paris during the outbreak of the second world war, the novel explores tensions between individual relationships and political commitment.
1 August 1945
Beauvoir published her second novel, Le Sang des autres. Set in Paris during the outbreak of the second world war, the novel explores tensions between individual relationships and political commitment.
August 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM
80 years ago today ...
1 August 1945
Beauvoir published her second novel, Le Sang des autres. Set in Paris during the outbreak of the second world war, the novel explores tensions between individual relationships and political commitment.
1 August 1945
Beauvoir published her second novel, Le Sang des autres. Set in Paris during the outbreak of the second world war, the novel explores tensions between individual relationships and political commitment.
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Two more free Rethinking Existentialism articles to celebrate #Fanon100 from the ever excellent @aeon.co magazine ::
1. A short piece on sedimentation in the existentialisms of Beauvoir and Fanon ::
1. A short piece on sedimentation in the existentialisms of Beauvoir and Fanon ::
Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes | Aeon Ideas
From stereotypes via sedimentation to behaviour: how existentialism can help us understand ourselves today
aeon.co
July 29, 2025 at 7:03 AM
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Happy *100th* birthday, Frantz Fanon!
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To celebrate, here is Rethinking Existentialism Chapter 8 –– Black Skin, White Masks –– free to download for one week only ::
bit.ly/RethExistFan...
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#philsky
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Happy *100th* birthday, Frantz Fanon!
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To celebrate, here is Rethinking Existentialism Chapter 8 –– Black Skin, White Masks –– free to download for one week only ::
bit.ly/RethExistFan...
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#philsky
July 20, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Happy *100th* birthday, Frantz Fanon!
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To celebrate, here is Rethinking Existentialism Chapter 8 –– Black Skin, White Masks –– free to download for one week only ::
bit.ly/RethExistFan...
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#philsky
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Happy *100th* birthday, Frantz Fanon!
.
.
To celebrate, here is Rethinking Existentialism Chapter 8 –– Black Skin, White Masks –– free to download for one week only ::
bit.ly/RethExistFan...
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.
#philsky
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To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100
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Sleeping beauty and the masses – Fanon’s class analysis of the postcolony - ROAPE
In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial…
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July 23, 2025 at 8:37 AM
To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100
buff.ly/7YXVZnn
buff.ly/7YXVZnn
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‘The significance of Fanon lies in his attempt to wrestle with the contradictions of the European legacy ... It now fell to those struggling for freedom from colonial rule to “start a new history of man”.’
- @kenanmalik.bsky.social in today’s
@theobserveruk.bsky.social ::
#fanon100 #philsky
- @kenanmalik.bsky.social in today’s
@theobserveruk.bsky.social ::
#fanon100 #philsky
What would Frantz Fanon say about Gaza? | The Observer
The postcolonial thinker's ideas were forged in the fire of Algerian liberation – but his views were more nuanced than his myth suggests
observer.co.uk
July 27, 2025 at 11:39 AM
‘The significance of Fanon lies in his attempt to wrestle with the contradictions of the European legacy ... It now fell to those struggling for freedom from colonial rule to “start a new history of man”.’
- @kenanmalik.bsky.social in today’s
@theobserveruk.bsky.social ::
#fanon100 #philsky
- @kenanmalik.bsky.social in today’s
@theobserveruk.bsky.social ::
#fanon100 #philsky
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FRANTZ FANON AT 100
www.criterionchannel.com/frantz-fanon...
Born 100 years ago today in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation.
www.criterionchannel.com/frantz-fanon...
Born 100 years ago today in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation.
Frantz Fanon at 100 - The Criterion Channel
Born 100 years ago this July in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation. His radical assertion of...
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July 20, 2025 at 10:45 PM
FRANTZ FANON AT 100
www.criterionchannel.com/frantz-fanon...
Born 100 years ago today in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation.
www.criterionchannel.com/frantz-fanon...
Born 100 years ago today in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation.
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To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, we’re sharing this archive Essay on the existentialist philosophies of Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir, which offer important insights into the nature of prejudice #FrantzFanon @jonathanwebber.bsky.social buff.ly/HhoUcNp
July 22, 2025 at 4:29 PM
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, we’re sharing this archive Essay on the existentialist philosophies of Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir, which offer important insights into the nature of prejudice #FrantzFanon @jonathanwebber.bsky.social buff.ly/HhoUcNp
