Kate Kirkpatrick

“One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de Beauvoir A symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short. Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. But for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who 'applied' Sartre's ideas. In recent years new material has come to light revealing the ingenuity of Beauvoir's own philosophy and the importance of other lovers in her life. This ground-breaking biography draws on never-before-published diaries and letters to tell the fascinating story of how Simone de Beauvoir became herself.

A Life

Becoming Beauvoir

Ein modernes Leben

Simone de Beauvoir

Simbol al feminității eliberate, relațiile neconvenționale ale lui Simone de Beauvoir au inspirat și au scandalizat o generație. Filosof, scriitoare și simbol al feminismului, a câștigat premii literare prestigioase și a transformat modul în care gândim despre gen odată cu Al doilea sex. Dar, în ciuda succesului ei, nu a putut să nu se întrebe dacă nu cumva s-a vândut prea ieftin. Legătura ei cu Jean-Paul Sartre a fost considerată una dintre poveștile de dragoste legendare ale secolului XX. Dar pentru Beauvoir aceasta a venit cu un preț: vreme de decenii, a fost considerată un gânditor lipsit de originalitate care aplica ideile lui Sartre. În ultimii ani, au ieșit la lumină noi materiale care au scos în evidență ingenuitatea filosofiei proprii lui Beauvoir și importanța celorlalte iubiri din viața ei. Această biografie inedită folosește jurnale și scrisori nepublicate până acum pentru a spune povestea fascinantă a modului în care Simone de Beauvoir a devenit ea însăși. „Fascinantă și minuțios documentată.“ Daily Mail „Biografia lui Kirkpatrick este un exercițiu de cercetare meticuloasă. Folosind jurnale recent publicate – doar de puțin timp puse la dispoziția cercetătorilor – refuză caracterizările simple și o dezvăluie pe Beauvoir în toată genialitatea și complexitatea ei... Beauvoir este un tribut minunat adus unei femei remarcabile.“ Times Higher Education KATE KIRKPATRICK este lector la catedra de Religie, filosofie și cultură la King’s College, în Londra. Este autoarea mai multor cărți despre Jean-Paul Sartre și Simone de Beauvoir. „O carte care trebuie citită încet și savurată. Sunt prea multe detalii pentru a o înghiți pe nemestecate. Dar merită timpul pe care îl acorzi pentru a citi portretul fascinant al unei femei care a inspirat alte femei din întreaga lume și care a schimbat modul în care gândesc mulți.“ The Sunday Times „Revelator.“ The Daily Telegraph „În biografia lui Kirkpatrick, Beauvoir este prezentată cu întregul ei corp de lucrări, în întreaga sa complexitate, cu întregul său curaj – mult mai mult decât ar putea face un gând citat greșit.“ Literary Review „În excelenta sa nouă biografie, Kate Kirkpatrick ne arată de ce avem atât de multe de învățat de la Beauvoir.“ New Statesman

O viață

Beauvoir

成为波伏瓦

寇克派翠

成為西蒙波娃

Sartre on Sin: Between Being and Nothingness argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early, anti-humanist philosophy is indebted to the Christian doctrine of original sin. On the standard reading, Sartre's most fundamental and attractive idea is freedom: he wished to demonstrate the existence of human freedom, and did so by connecting consciousness with nothingness. Focusing on Being and Nothingness, Kate Kirkpatrick demonstrates that Sartre's concept of nothingness (le néant) has a Christian genealogy which has been overlooked in philosophical and theological discussions of his work. Previous scholars have noted the resemblance between Sartre's and Augustine's ontologies: to name but one shared theme, both thinkers describe the human as the being through which nothingness enters the world. However, there has been no previous in-depth examination of this 'resemblance'. Using historical, exegetical, and conceptual methods, Kirkpatrick demonstrates that Sartre's intellectual formation prior to his discovery of phenomenology included theological elements-especially concerning the compatibility of freedom with sin and grace. After outlining the French Augustinianisms by which Sartre's account of the human as 'between being and nothingness' was informed, Kirkpatrick offers a close reading of Being and Nothingness which shows that the psychological, epistemological, and ethical consequences of Sartre's le néant closely resemble the consequences of its theological predecessor; and that his account of freedom can be read as an anti-theodicy. Sartre on Sin illustrates that Sartre' s insights are valuable resources for contemporary hamartiology.

Between Being and Nothingness

Sartre on Sin

»Man wird nicht als Frau geboren, man wird dazu gemacht«, schrieb Simone de Beauvoir. Sie war Philosophin, Schriftstellerin, Existenzialistin und eine feministische Ikone. Ihre Romane erhielten renommierte Literaturpreise und »Das andere Geschlecht« hat die Art und Weise, wie wir über Geschlechtergrenzen denken, für immer verändert. Kate Kirkpatricks Buch ist die erste Biografie von Simone de Beauvoir seit der Veröffentlichung ihrer Briefe und der frühen Tagebücher – vor allem die erst kürzlich erschienenen Briefe an ihren Geliebten Claude Lanzmann werfen ein neues Licht auf ihre Beziehung zu Jean Paul Sartre. Kirkpatrick beschreibt kenntnisreich und spannend, wie sich Beauvoirs Denken und ihr Selbstverständnis entwickelt haben.

‘Simone de Beauvoir. Een leven’ is de nieuwe, monumentale biografie geschreven door Kate Kirkpatrick. Diepgravend, verrassend en ontroerend. Filosoof, schrijver en feministisch icoon – Simone de Beauvoir was het allemaal. Biografe Kate Kirkpatrick had voor het eerst toegang tot nooit eerder beschikbare dagboeken en correspondentie. Het resultaat is een echte pageturner: diepgravend, verrassend en ontroerend. Deze baanbrekende biografie werpt een geheel nieuw licht op De Beauvoir, die definitief neergezet wordt als een van de belangrijkste denkers van de twintigste eeuw. ‘Toen De Beauvoir haar nu beroemde woorden in De tweede sekse schreef – “Je komt niet ter wereld als vrouw, je wordt vrouw” – wist ze niet hoe groot de invloed van dat boek zou zijn op de rest van haar leven of de levens van degenen die na haar kwamen. Er is veel geschreven over de betekenis van die zin, over wat dat betekent: vrouw “worden”. Dit boek is gewijd aan de vraag hoe De Beauvoir zelf is geworden wie ze werd.’ - Kate Kirkpatrick

Een leven

Simone de Beauvoir es un icono de la liberación femenina y sus relaciones poco convencionales inspiraron a la vez que escandalizaron a sus contemporáneos. Pero no solo se la conoce por eso, ya que también destaca como filósofa y novelista. Sus novelas ganaron prestigiosos premios literarios y El segundo sexo transformó la forma en que pensamos sobre el sexo y el género. Su relación con Jean-Paul Sartre, uno de los filósofos más importantes del siglo pasado, fue una de las más legendarias del siglo XX, pero para Beauvoir esa fama tuvo un coste: durante décadas su pensamiento fue infravalorado como poco original a la sombra de las ideas de Sartre. Sin embargo, nuevos materiales descubiertos recientemente muestran el valor de su propio pensamiento filosófico y el papel que este tuvo en la obra de Sartre. Kate Kirkpatrick se basa en diarios y cartas inéditos, y muestra nuevos detalles personales sobre la vida de Beauvoir que profundizan en el misterio de su figura. ¿Por qué este "icono feminista" construyó su propia imagen? ¿Por qué mintió sobre su relación con Sartre con tanta frecuencia o afirmó no ser filósofa?

Una biografía

Convertirse en Beauvoir

This work argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's early philosophy had a notable inheritance from the Christian doctrine of original sin. With particular attention to being and nothingness, Kirkpatrick connects Sartre to an Augustinian tradition of Christian thought according to which nothingness enters the world with the creation of the human.

George Pattison

At the time when existentialism was a dominant intellectual and cultural force, a number of commentators observed that some of the language of existential philosophy, not least its interpretation of human existence in terms of nothingness, evoked the language of so-called mystical writers. This book takes on this observation and explores the evidence for the influence of mysticism on the philosophy of existentialism. It begins by delving into definitions of mysticism and existentialism, and then traces the elements of mysticism present in German and French thought during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The book goes on to make original contributions to the study of figures including Kierkegaard, Buber, Heidegger, Beauvoir, Sartre, Marcel, Camus, Weil, Bataille, Berdyaev, and Tillich, linking their existentialist philosophy back to some of the key concerns of the mystical tradition. Providing a unique insight into how these two areas have overlapped and interacted, this study is vital reading for any academic with an interest in twentieth-century philosophy, theology and religious studies.

Being, Nothingness, Love

The Mystical Sources of Existentialist Thought

Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and themes in ways that have not previously been acknowledged. In Sartre and Theology, Kirkpatrick examines Sartre's philosophical formation and rarely discussed early work, demonstrating how, and which, theology shaped Sartre's thinking. She also shows that Sartre's philosophy - especially Being and Nothingness and Existentialism is A Humanism - contributed to several prominent twentieth-century theologies, examining Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, and Liberation theologians rebuttals and appropriations of Sartre. For philosophers, this work opens up an unmined vein of influence on Sartre's work which illuminates his conceptual divergences from the German phenomenological tradition. And for theologians, it offers insights into a theologically informed atheism which provoked responses from some of the twentieth-century's greatest theologians - an atheism from which we can still learn much today.

Kate Kirkpatrick

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