Adam Kjellgren: Beauvoir the Mythmaker

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Simone De Beauvoir: A Toolkit for the 21st Century

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The French activist, novelist and philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) is more popular than ever. In this podcast, we ask how her political commitments have shaped her writing as well as her public interventions: existentialism, Marxism, anti-colonialism and, finally feminism. This podcast, starting from Beauvoir’s social and political engagement, asks to what extent De Beauvoir provides important tools for diagnosing the present and offering a prognosis for the future. Her life and work provide a toolkit offering both a conceptual apparatus as practical examples of acts of resistance.

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Adam Kjellgren: Beauvoir the Mythmaker

Simone De Beauvoir: A Toolkit for the 21st Century

38 minutes 5 seconds

3 years ago

Adam Kjellgren: Beauvoir the Mythmaker

Simone de Beauvoir is often portrayed as a sworn enemy of myth because of her critical discussion of the myth of feminity in The Second Sex. Yet, in this episode, Adam Kjellgren argues that Beauvoir does not repudiate myth, but makes use of it herself.

This lecture is moderated by Deva Waal.

This podcast serie is hosted by Ashika Singh and Liesbeth Schoonheim