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Portrait of Simone de Beauvoir

20th century · 1908–1986

Who influenced Simone de Beauvoir?

Influences

One is not born, but becomes, a woman — existentialism turned into feminism.

Simone de Beauvoir was influenced by Jean-Paul Sartre. That is 1 line of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.

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Who was Simone de Beauvoir?

Simone de Beauvoir was a French existentialist writer, social theorist and feminist activist. She did not call herself a philosopher, yet she shaped both feminist existentialism and feminist theory. Her best-known work, The Second Sex (1949), is a detailed analysis of women's oppression and a founding text of contemporary feminism.

Her novels include She Came to Stay (1943) and The Mandarins (1954), and she wrote several volumes of memoirs, starting with Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter (1958). She received the Prix Goncourt in 1954 and was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature three times. She and Jean-Paul Sartre shared a long open relationship.

Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.

Who influenced Simone de Beauvoir?

1 direct influence on this map, earliest first.

The line of teachers behind Simone de Beauvoir

The longest documented line of influence ending at Simone de Beauvoir runs 27 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.

  1. Thales of Miletus
  2. Anaximenes of Miletus
  3. Anaxagoras
  4. Socrates
  5. Antisthenes
  6. Diogenes of Sinope
  7. Crates of Thebes
  8. Zeno of Citium
  9. Seneca
  10. Tertullian
  11. Augustine of Hippo
  12. Anselm of Canterbury
  13. Peter Lombard
  14. Thomas Aquinas
  15. René Descartes
  16. Thomas Hobbes
  17. Baruch Spinoza
  18. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
  19. Christian Wolff
  20. Immanuel Kant
  21. Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  22. F. W. J. Schelling
  23. Georg W. F. Hegel
  24. Max Stirner
  25. Friedrich Nietzsche
  26. Martin Heidegger
  27. Jean-Paul Sartre
  28. Simone de Beauvoir

Two steps away from Simone de Beauvoir

Indirect influences

Contemporaries of Simone de Beauvoir

Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Simone de Beauvoir, with no direct line between them.

Simone de Beauvoir by the numbers

Direct influences
1
Direct followers
0
Thinkers upstream
115
Thinkers downstream
0
Wikipedia languages
140 — #4 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
Card rarity
Legendary

Schools and lineages

Questions about Simone de Beauvoir

Who influenced Simone de Beauvoir?
Jean-Paul Sartre.
Who did Simone de Beauvoir influence?
No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Simone de Beauvoir.
When did Simone de Beauvoir live?
1908–1986. The map files Simone de Beauvoir under the 20th century.
How rare is the Simone de Beauvoir card?
Wikipedia carries an article on Simone de Beauvoir in 140 languages, which makes it a Legendary card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.

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