FCS195H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Simone De Beauvoir, Existence Precedes Essence, The Mandarins
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Cliche: black turtleneck, sitting in cafes, angst, mopey beatnik aesthetic but french. To be distinguished from other views that there"s something more out there . Authenticity: engagement from using your freedom towards some end. The other : self we feel to be & the one others perceive to be. In literature: major novels included sartre"s 1938 nausea , camus" 1942 the stranger and. Simone de beauvoir"s 1943 she came to stay. The most famous french existentialist writer and philosopher. Known for nausea and his play no exit. Also wrote philosophical texts, including being and nothingness. One is not born but rather becomes a woman. Classic feminist philosophy, woman as a man"s other. Beauvoir and sartre: their romantic relationship and the graduate exam (she merited top. The mandarins (1954) is a novel about post-war france and communism prize but it was given to sartre instead) Did not identify as an existentialist but is classified among them.
