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Thats when everything started, Simone de Beauvoir wrote in an entry dated July 8, 1929. On that day, her relationship with JeanPaul Sartre began. This second volume of Beauvoirs Diary of a Philosophy Student takes readers into smoky dorm rooms and interwar Paris as it continues the feminist philosophers comingofage story. Here are Beauvoirs famous sparring sessions with Sartre in the Luxembourg Gardensteasing him while stoking her burgeoning intellectual strength. Here also are her friendships and academic challenges, the discovery of important future influences like Barrs and Hegel, and her early forays into formulating the problem of the Other. In addition to the diary, the editors provide invaluable supplementary material. A trove of footnotes and endnotes elaborates on virtually every reference made by Beauvoir, offering an atlas of her knowledge and education while at the same time allowing readers to share her intellectual and cultural milieu. Translator and scholar Barbara Klaw also contributes an introduction on reading Beauvoirs diaries as a philosophy of selfhelp.
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Thats when everything started, Simone de Beauvoir wrote in an entry dated July 8, 1929. On that day, her relationship with JeanPaul Sartre began. This second volume of Beauvoirs Diary of a Philosophy Student takes readers into smoky dorm rooms and interwar Paris as it continues the feminist philosophers comingofage story. Here are Beauvoirs famous sparring sessions with Sartre in the Luxembourg Gardensteasing him while stoking her burgeoning intellectual strength. Here also are her friendships and academic challenges, the discovery of important future influences like Barrs and Hegel, and her early forays into formulating the problem of the Other. In addition to the diary, the editors provide invaluable supplementary material. A trove of footnotes and endnotes elaborates on virtually every reference made by Beauvoir, offering an atlas of her knowledge and education while at the same time allowing readers to share her intellectual and cultural milieu. Translator and scholar Barbara Klaw also contributes an introduction on reading Beauvoirs diaries as a philosophy of selfhelp.
