[17.7.05][Andrew Stevens] PUBIC INTELLECTUAL Lisa Appignanesi on Simone de Beauvoir at openDemocracy: "Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre did all this, and they weren't even rock stars. Instead they wrote books - thick philosophical tomes, novels, plays, autobiography, and penetrating analyses of their times. In those years it was possible to be 'a public intellectual' and command a large audience and even the ear of politicians. 50,000 flocked the streets of Paris when Sartre died in 1980. When Simone followed, nearly six years to the day, the newspaper headlines blared: 'Women, you owe her everything'."
She will also be speaking on her new book about the Second Sex author on 26 July at the British Library Bookshop, St Pancras (more here). [permalink]
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