Existentialism

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Published today: The Oxford Handbook of Modern French Philosophy, edited by Mark Sinclair and Daniel Whistler

Londoners and livestreamers! If you’re interested in what Beauvoir has to say about love—or curious about why people still talk about *The Second Sex* 75 years after its publication—this is a live conversation for you. Tuesday 23 July, 7pm BST interintellect.com/salon/love-and…

“It is to be expected that one will be misunderstood when one has written a book whose chosen intention is a little ambiguous.” —Simone de Beauvoir to Annie Ernaux (Pictured cited by Sophia Millman, Princeton)

Un très grand merci @MFOxford for hosting another—our biggest ever—UK Sartre (and Beauvoir 😉) Society conference this week! And to all who came to speak and listen, too.

This year's UK Sartre Society conference includes a plenary symposium on Mary Edwards’s monograph Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis. #UKSS2024

One final session of #SEP2024 is a symposium on Henry Somers-Hall's book Judgement and Sense in Modern French Philosophy, with talks by Nathan Widder, Cillian Ó Fathaigh, and Wahida Khandker, and a reply by the author.

Superb #SEP2024 session on Simone de Beauvoir with Anna Cornelia Ploug (Copenhagen) on concrete contradictions in The Second Sex and Katja Čičigoj (Klagenfurt) on gendered forms of subjectivation structuring lived experience.

Ahead of the symposium at this year’s UK Sartre Society conference on the 8th of July, Sartre’s Existential Psychoanalysis is now available in paperback - at a much more affordable price! bloomsbury.com/uk/sartres-exi… @BloomsburyPhilo @BloomsburyAcad

Beauvoir and Politics: Book Symposium and Launch Tuesday, 25 June @HumboldtUni Link below for info and registration ⬇️

“On ne naît pas femme, on le devient » #Onthisday in 1949, Simone de #Beauvoir published the first volume of The Second Sex. 👉 See how this opus was received in Europe! An article by Sylvie Chaperon (@FRAMESPA) #womenhist #genderhistory👇 ehne.fr/en/encyclopedi…

Have you read The Second Sex? Ever wondered: Why is this so confusing? What kind of Marxist is Beauvoir? Why is there so much psychoanalysis? Here’s a new essay in which I share where some of my recent wondering has led me. journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/12/1a…

@BritishAcademy_ And now with working link... journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/articles/12/1a…

New publication! 'Femininity, love, and alienation: the genius of The Second Sex' Out today open access in the Journal of the @BritishAcademy_ journal.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/12/1and2/a02

Great short interview with Storm Heter on jazz clubs, lecture halls, and the sonic gaze — bit.ly/sonicgaze

Looking forward to hearing what practicing psychotherapists make of my claims about Sartre's existential insights for integrative psychotherapy at this Psychotherapy Sussex event on Saturday: eventbrite.com/e/sartres-exis…

Less than one month to go until this public event celebrating the 70th anniversary of Simone de Beauvoir's novel, Les mandarins, organised by @CardiffBookTalk in collaboration with the UK Sartre Society! See the poster 👇 for how to register

And in Welsh:

Toril Moi is Simone de Beauvoir's biographer and we've linked to her sharp and perceptive article via our blog - we think its a great intro to the characters and themes of the novel: cardiffbooktalk.wordpress.com/2024/05/01/tor…