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Simone de Beauvoir - Who She Was and Why She Matters Now
<p>Simone de Beauvoir was one of the ‘Big original’ thinkers and major French authors of the mid-20th century. Books and writing were her lifelong passion and vocation. She was enthralled with life
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Simone de Beauvoir was one of the ‘Big original’ thinkers and major French authors of the mid-20th century. Books and writing were her lifelong passion and vocation. She was enthralled with life and enjoyed it deeply through her personal existential meaning as a writer. This trailblazer said the job of a writer is to portray and understand her era, name oppressive practices and comment on the times to promote positive social and personal change. She still speaks to us in a digital era of mass- generated and conformist thinking.
DELIVERY MODE
- Face-to-Face
SUGGESTED READING
Memoirs of Simone de Beauvoir such as:
- Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1959)
- The Prime of Life (1962)
- A Very Easy Death (1963)
- Force of Circumstance (1965)
- All Said and Done (1974)
- What is Existentialism? (Penguin Random House: 2020), ISBN 9780241475232
COURSE OUTLINE
- A brief overview of the life of de Beauvoir
- The range of her written works over 40 years
- Some of the major philosophical ideas she contributes to existential thought
- The relevance of her ideas to our contemporary mass digital age.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
By the end of this course, students should be able to:
- Identify key original, innovative ideas of de Beauvoir
- Grasp her significance as a writer to her times and our contemporary time of mass digital messages of mass thinking
