Since I have never considered Sartre to be a particularly compelling philosopher, his juvenile antics cannot undermine his reputation with me. I don't find Beauvoir's work interesting, either, but I did enjoy the three-part series. It will provide me with entertaining digressive material when I go over existentialism and feminism next semester.
These relationships took place around 10 years before the Second Sex appeared. From reading Kirkpatrick's book, I get the impresson that Beauvoir did not see herself as a feminist before she wrote the Second Sex, that she discovered her feminism in writing the book.
Since I have never considered Sartre to be a particularly compelling philosopher, his juvenile antics cannot undermine his reputation with me. I don't find Beauvoir's work interesting, either, but I did enjoy the three-part series. It will provide me with entertaining digressive material when I go over existentialism and feminism next semester.
These relationships took place around 10 years before the Second Sex appeared. From reading Kirkpatrick's book, I get the impresson that Beauvoir did not see herself as a feminist before she wrote the Second Sex, that she discovered her feminism in writing the book.