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Kate Kirkpatrick on the Life and Work of Simone de Beauvoir

In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast, Kate Kirkpatrick, author of a new biography of Simone de Beauvoir, Becoming Beauvoir, discusses Beauvoir's life and art. Beauvoir is often described as if she applied Jean-Paul Sartre' existentialist ideas to the condition of women. Is this a fair assessment?

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Katherine Morris on Merleau-Ponty on the Body

Maurice Merleau-Ponty was one of the most interesting of the French phenomenologists, but his reputation has been eclipsed by Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir's. In this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Katherine Morris discusses some of his ideas about the body with Nigel Warburton.

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Sebastian Gardner on Jean-Paul Sartre on Bad Faith

Jean-Paul Sartre's Being and Nothingness is sometimes described as the bible of existentialism. At its core is the notion of Bad Faith. For this episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast Sebastian Gardner, author of a recent book about Being and Nothingness, explains what Sartre meant by Bad Faith.

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Clare Carlisle on Kierkegaard's Fear and Trembling

What is faith? Are human beings capable of it? What part does reason play in life? These and more questions are raised by Søren Kierkegaard's book Fear and Trembling. Clare Carlisle illuminates many of the themes of the book in this interview for Philosophy Bites.

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Mary Warnock on Sartre's Existentialism

What is existentialism? Are we free to choose what we become or are we bound by human nature, by our history, by conventions? Nigel Warburton interviews Mary Warnock on the topic of Jean-Paul Sartre's existentialism in this latest episode of the Philosophy Bites podcast.

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