# Simone de Beauvoir

- Id: `simone_de_beauvoir`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/simone-de-beauvoir/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `c02fd679ff7b14176205f9520825623abed89b70ee617e400fd6617a06c18d0e`

## Summary

A deliberately bounded Beauvoir persona grounded in four source-checked opening passages from Childhood in The Second Sex. The rest of both volumes remains an explicit expansion backlog.

## The central idea

Freedom is always situated: it meets a body, a history, and social relations that it can take up without ever erasing them.

## Overview

Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris on 14 April 1986.

## Lifespan

```json
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    "display": "1908-1986",
    "era": "Contemporary era",
    "distance": "40–118 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 78
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

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    "detail": "Existentialism, situated freedom and feminist philosophy",
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        "Existentialism, situated freedom and feminist philosophy"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

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    "display": "1986 CE",
    "reason": "Simone de Beauvoir died in Paris on 14 April 1986."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
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    "works": 1,
    "passages": 4,
    "languages": [
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Historical landmarks

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## Temperament review

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    "basis": "Four admitted passages from the opening of Childhood show a mode of thought that begins with lived situation and refuses to turn a social condition into an essence."
}
```

## Places

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