At its core, the quote implies that human life derives its meaning through relationships and social responsibility. On the ...

As the leading feminist philosopher of the 20th century, Simone de Beauvoir’s best-selling book The Second Sex exemplified the power of writing to bring women’s experiences out from the shadows and ...

“The Visionaries,” by Wolfram Eilenberger, examines the divergent theories of self and other developed in a time of crisis by Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil. By Jennifer ...

LONDON — A combination of name recognition, talent, and social relevance is earning artist Hélène de Beauvoir a prominence that eluded her during a lifetime spent under the long shadow of her sister ...

In an era of 'anti-intellectualism,' a popular L.A. reading series called Grain of Salt is redefining the book club by ...

Some people age with grace and humor, even when life becomes difficult. Others seem to battle every change as if it were a personal insult.

COMMENTARY: The roots of the current transgender movement and man-hating feminism can be traced back to the theories of two despairing French philosophers, Simone de Beauvoir and her lover Jean-Paul ...

In the popular imagination, Simone de Beauvoir is best known as the foremother of contemporary feminism, and as the turbaned, chain-smoking, glamorously intellectual companion of Jean-Paul Sartre.

The Chicago-born curator Naomi Beckwith has been given free rein at the Palais de Tokyo to examine how American artists responded to thinkers from France. By Emily LaBarge “The Visionaries,” by ...

The film, Sartre by Himself, made by Alexandre Astruc and currently being shown in Paris, offers to the amateur of French culture an excellent opportunity to watch the “grand homme” of existentialism ...