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The Existentialist Offensive
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Spotted at (and bought from) Simone de Beauvoir's favourite (English language) bookshop! @shakespeareandcompany.com
#philsky #booksky ✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is now published in North America! ✨✨ here are some of the things people have said about it ...
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A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance A Penguin Classic In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectua...
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#philsky #booksky ✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy is now published in North America! ✨✨ here are some of the things people have said about it ...
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy: 9780241645413 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance A Penguin Classic In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectua...
penguinrandomhouse.com
UK Sartre Society 2026: Keynote Address titles and full information 1–2 July, Maison Française d'Oxford. Keynote Addresses from Jane Hiddleston, Marguerite La Caze, & Mark Wrathall - plus 28 selected papers. www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/07/u...
Keynote Addresses for this year's conference: Negritude and Ecology in Sartre, Fanon, and Césaire – Jane Hiddleston (Oxford) Will We Make It? Beauvoir and Jeunes Mères – Marguerite La Caze (Queensland) Ontological Pluralism in Sartre and Heidegger – Mark Wrathall (Oxford) 1–2 July in Oxford ...
plus 28 selected papers! Hosted by Maison Française d'Oxford in their beautiful building (@mfoxford.bsky.social) Full details: bit.ly/UKSS2026
I still have a book of yours on Camus which I hope you will come and collect.
My interview with the Guardian on the publication of my first book for a wider audience is in the books section today. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m... ‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
Her philosophical approach to therapy has become a global phenomenon, and inspired a new book. Could a session with her change Sophie McBain’s life?
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UK Sartre Society conference 2026 Maison Française d'Oxford :: 1 – 2 July Keynote Speakers –– Jane Hiddleston (Oxford) Marguerite La Caze (Queensland) Mark Wrathall (Oxford) :: Registration is now open! :: Full details: www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Parution aujourd'hui : Écrits et paroles féministes de Simone de Beauvoir
“If truth be told, one is not born, but becomes, a genius; and the feminine condition has, until now, rendered this becoming impossible.” - Happy 118th birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
11 December 1945: Beauvoir gave a lecture titled ‘Roman et métaphysique’ at Club Maintenant in Paris. Beauvoir argued that novels can provide richer and more nuanced metaphysical visions of human reality than is possible using the skeletal abstractions of philosophical prose.
7 December 1945: Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles, which had been first performed on 29 October, is published. An English translation is available as The Useless Mouths.
2 December 1945: Sartre publishes the second novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté –– Le Sursis is set during ‘the phoney war’ of September 1939 to March 1940, after the war was declared but before the fighting had begun. An English translation is available from Penguin as The Reprieve.
1 December 1945: Les Temps Modernes issue 3 is published. Beauvoir’s ‘L’existentialisme et la sagesse des nations’ – by far the best short introduction to existentialism ever published – is the lead article. Sartre’s highly influential ‘Portrait de l’antisémite’ is in the same issue.
#philsky 30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy ::
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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
✨✨ 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...
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1 November 1945: Issue 2 of Les Temps Modernes is published Beauvoir’s essay ‘Idéalisme moral et réalisme politique’ addresses a theme of her novel La Sang des Autres and her play Les Bouches Inutiles – the place of morality in political action and the foundational value of each person’s freedom
29 October 1945: Premiere performance of Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles (aka Useless Mouths or Who Shall Die) at Théâtre des Carrefours (now Théâtre des Bouffes-du-Nord) by Gare du Nord in Paris.
29 October 1945: Sartre gives a lecture titled ‘L’existentialisme – est-il un humanisme?’ at Club Maintenant in Paris. Far too many people turned up. Sartre had to push his way through to the stage, much to the annoyance of the crowd. He spoke for about an hour without notes and took questions.
24 October 1945: The United Nations officially comes into being, as the UN Charter has now been ratified by the majority of its signatories including the five permanent members of the Security Council. 24 October has been celebrated as United Nations Day since 1948.
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.
21 October 1945: A general election to the legislative assembly is held. This is the first time women can vote in a French national election. A referendum asks whether the newly elected legislature should draft a new constitution. 96% of the votes cast are in favour.
15 October 1945: Pierre Laval, who had the official title Prime Minister of France in the collaborationist Vichy government, is executed by firing squad.
2 October 1945: The day after Les Temps Modernes is launched, Sartre publishes the first novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté: L’Âge de Raison is set in the summer of 1938 as Europe teeters on the brink of war.
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.
