What Is Existentialism? by Simone de Beauvoir

What Is Existentialism?

Penguin Great Ideas

Simone de Beauvoir

117 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of...

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hopeful 16%
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