March 28th, at the American Library in Paris.
Registration: https://americanlibraryinparis.org/event/kirkpatrick-rouch23/
Nearly seventy-five years ago, Simone de Beauvoir published the monumental The Second Sex. An invaluable contribution to existential philosophy, the work laid the foundations for contemporary feminist thought. It led to the development of new disciplines, from gender studies to queer theory, all motivated by the central claim: that one is not born a woman, but rather becomes one. Who was the woman behind the text? How did her life feed into her philosophy, and in what ways were the two in contradiction? How did Simone de Beauvoir become herself? Join American Library in Paris Visiting Fellow and author of Becoming Beauvoir Kate Kirkpatrick and de Beauvoir expert Marine Rouch to discuss the biography of the woman who changed philosophy.