Simone de beauvoir biography video of vasco

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00:30It is often said that behind every great man is a great woman.

00:34With Jean-Paul Sartre and Simon de Beauvoir, however,

00:37it was one of the few happy times when the great woman

00:41did not languish in her famous partner's shadow,

00:44but was equally lauded in her own right.

00:47Indeed, their relationship began in 1929,

00:50when de Beauvoir gave a presentation

00:52on the 17th century German philosopher Leibniz,

00:55impressing Sartre,

00:57who pursued the 21-year-old philosopher and author.

01:00While not monogamous,

01:02the two were lifelong companions from then on.

01:05Together, they were at the forefront

01:07of the existentialist movement,

01:09with Sartre penning such notable works

01:11as Being and Nothingness in 1943,

01:14de Beauvoir following four years later

01:16with The Ethics of Ambiguity,

01:18which is often regarded as the most accessible introduction

01:22to the philosophy of French existentialism.

01:25Together, de Be