And here is an interview where she discusses her commitment to public engagement over decades: “changes in the way people think about the world are part of the process of changing the world itself”
www.lingoblog.dk/en/deborah-c...

Quotations are from "Pilgrimage to Nonviolence" and "All that we are, we owe," both of which are available free online at the King Institute at Stanford. Links ⬆️ and ⬇️. 7/end
kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/...

But some American theologians of liberation responded that it was not their Gospel to preach freedom without interdependence. 6/

America’s bootstraps individualism made it ripe for a certain reading of Sartre’s early existentialism, usually on the basis of ‘Existentialism is a Humanism’ (1946), since Being and Nothingness wasn't published in English until 1957 (after King wrote ‘All that we are, we owe’). 5/

King concluded that the existentialist premise that “man creates himself” had to be rejected on the grounds that: “no Christian can believe this. From the deeps of our moral consciousness springs the conviction that what we are, we owe.” 4/

had grasped certain basic truths about man and his condition that could not be permanently overlooked.” It got some things right, offering insight into finite freedom, anxiety, ambiguity, estrangement. But early on in his “serious intellectual quest for a method to eliminate social evil” 3/

In his well-known account of his "pilgrimage to nonviolence" King claimed that Protestant liberalism and neo-orthodoxy both left him dissatisfied: “each represents a partial truth”. Existentialism, he wrote, “in spite of the fact that it had become all too fashionable, 2/

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Quotations are from Beauvoir’s 1959 essay “Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome”, pp. 114 and 115 in this volume:
www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=c0...

If you’re interested in this history or ad feminam arguments concerning Beauvoir’s feminism I recommend this (or the biography I wrote which it mentions): www.theguardian.com/books/2019/a...

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