Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-264) and index
Sartre and Beauvoir -- Final exams -- Courtship and union -- Carousing -- Would-be authors -- More carousing -- The family jewels -- The 'lost' letters -- Sartre or Beauvoir? -- A 'preposterous' thesis -- Two beginnings, one philosophy -- Whose ethics? -- The absence of Beauvoir -- Beauvoir in the intellectual marketplace -- Beauvoir and Beauvoir -- Gender and method -- Gender and ethics -- The second sex -- The second sex and the genre trap
Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the most brilliant, influential, and scandalous intellectuals of the 20th century. They are remembered as much for the lives they led as for their influence on the way we think. Their committed but notoriously open union created huge controversy in their lifetime. And even before their deaths they had become one of history's legendary couples, renowned for the passion, daring, humour and intellectual intensity of their relationship. This fascinating book presents a biography of Sartre and de Beauvoir's relationship and offers some highly orig