Diary of a Philosophy Student
Beauvoir kept this diary at nineteen, before Sartre, already circling the questions about freedom and the other that would occupy her for the following six decades.
Beauvoir’s diary from 1926–27, kept while she was a nineteen-year-old student at the Sorbonne and years before she met Sartre. She is already working out the questions about freedom, selfhood and the other that would occupy her for six decades, and doing it with startling self-possession.
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Simone de Beauvoir (January 9, 1908–April 14, 1986) was only nineteen when she took up this question with uncommon lucidity in her diary, later published as the endlessly satisfying Diary of a Philosophy Student (public library).
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