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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · 9d
Latest issue of Sartre Studies International out now!

Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.

Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...

Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
Cover of Sartre Studies International, with subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture. Cover features a photo of Sartre in his 30s, inexplicably fading into the background like some sort of ghost.
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 6d
2 October 1945:

The day after Les Temps Modernes is launched, Sartre publishes the first novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté:

L’Âge de Raison is set in the summer of 1938 as Europe teeters on the brink of war.
Cover of first edition. Blank white cover with centred text: JEAN-PAUL SARTRE Les chemins de la liberté I L'âge de raison roman nrf GALLIMARD Cover of current Penguin Modern Classics edition of the English translation – The Age of Reason.
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Mary Edwards @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social · 8d
Here, I review the final instalment of the English translation of Simone de Beauvoir’s student diary as well as Margaret A. Simons’s treatment of the sexual assault it alludes to.
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Berghahn Books @berghahnbooks.bsky.social · 14d
The latest issue of Sartre Studies International has been published! View the TOC and more for Volume 31, Issue 1 here: bit.ly/4pC8gX1

Featuring a Review Essay by @mary-l-edwards.bsky.social
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 7d
1 October 1945:

The first issue of Les Temps Modernes is published –– a monthly cultural and political journal led by Sartre and Beauvoir, with a host of other major figures on the editorial board.

The journal is named after a Charlie Chaplin film. Pablo Picasso designed the cover.
Cover of the first issue of Les Temps Modernes. Blank white page with the following column of centred text: Les Temps Modernes 1re année REVUE MENSUELLE n° 1 1er Octobre 1945 JEAN-PAUL SARTRE - Présentation. RICHARD WRIGHT - Le feu dans la nuée. MAURICE MERLEAU-PONTY - La guerre a eu lieu. FRANCIS PONGE - Notes premières de l'homme. RAYMOND ARON - Les désillusions de la liberté. JACQUES-LAURENT BOST - Le dernier des métiers. VIES Vie d'une sinistrée. TÉMOIGNAGES JEAN ROY - Les morts. EXPOSÉS F. PASCHE, RAYMOND ARON, JEAN-PAUL SARTRE LEENHART, PHILLIP TOYNBEE, IVAN MOFFAT, JEAN POUILLON. TM Rédaction, administration : 5, rue Sébastien-Bottin, Paris
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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · 9d
And of course ...
Cover of the new English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930. Features a head and shoulders black-and-white photo of Beauvoir at some point in those years.
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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · 9d
Timothy D. Mooney, Merleau-Ponty's Phenomenology of Perception: On the Body Informed

Joseph C. Berendzen, Embodied Idealism: Merleau-Ponty's Transcendental Philosophy
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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · 9d
Books reviewed:

Robert Bernasconi, Critical Philosophy of Race: Essays

Kathryn Sophia Belle, Beauvoir and Belle: A Black Feminist Critique of The Second Sex
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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · 9d
Positioning Sartre for Success: Patrick Baert and the Sociology of the Existentialist Moment
– Graeme Kirkpatrick

Right Then, Right Now: Ronald Aronson and Jonathan Judaken in Conversation about Sartre, Anti-Semitism, and Israel–Palestine
– Ronald Aronson and Jonathan Judaken
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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · 9d
What Sartre Read in His Formative Years in the 1920s
– Alfred Betschart

Freedom and Truth: Jean-Paul Sartre as a Reader of Descartes’ Meditations
– Christos Kalpakidis
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UK Sartre Society @uksartresociety.bsky.social · 9d
Latest issue of Sartre Studies International out now!

Featuring an extensive review by Mary L Edwards of the new translation of Simone de Beauvoir's memoir Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 3, 1926–1930.

Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ...

Ici: bit.ly/SSIv31i1
Cover of Sartre Studies International, with subtitle: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Existentialism and Contemporary Culture. Cover features a photo of Sartre in his 30s, inexplicably fading into the background like some sort of ghost.
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 11d
It is 80 years since Beauvoir and Sartre gave the word 'existentialism' a definition ...

... in a campaign of publications and events that Beauvoir later called 'the existentialist offensive'.

To celebrate, this feed will mark each key moment (including political events) for the next three months.
Black-and-white image. The first ever photo of Beauvoir and Sartre together, taken at a travelling fair visiting Porte d'Orléans in Paris, 1929. Beauvoir is pointing a gun and has her eyes closed. Sartre is by her side, hand on her shoulder, pipe in his mouth. The attraction required you to fire at a target. If you hit the bullseye, a camera was triggered and you got to keep the photo. Beauvoir's eyes are closed presumably as an involuntary reaction to the gun firing. Otherwise she hit the bullseye without looking!
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 14d
#philsky #fanon

"The collective unconscious is not governed by cerebral heredity: it is the consequence of what I shall call an impulsive cultural imposition"

— Frantz Fanon
Cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, featuring Marie Raymond's painting Arabesques ou Variations sur la volute, 1948, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.5 cm, © ADAGP, Paris, banque d’images de l’ADAGP Painting is an abstract of bold curves, lines, rectangles, and the suggestions of triangles in yellows, whites, greys, and black. Right-side semi-profile head and shoulders colour photo of Frantz Fanon.
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 16d
#philsky #beauvoir

"Existentialist thought is an effort to reconcile the objective and the subjective, the absolute and the relative, the timeless and the historical"

– Simone de Beauvoir
Right-side semi-profile black-and white photo of Simone de Beauvoir looking up from writing. Taken in 1947. Cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, featuring Marie Raymond's painting Arabesques ou Variations sur la volute, 1948, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.5 cm, © ADAGP, Paris, banque d’images de l’ADAGP Painting is an abstract of bold curves, lines, rectangles, and the suggestions of triangles in yellows, whites, greys, and black.
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 18d
#philsky #sartre

"If the whole of humanity continues to live, it will do so not simply because it has been born but because it will have decided to prolong its life"

– Jean-Paul Sartre
Cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy, featuring Marie Raymond's painting Arabesques ou Variations sur la volute, 1948, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.5 cm, © ADAGP, Paris, banque d’images de l’ADAGP Painting is an abstract of bold curves, lines, rectangles, and the suggestions of triangles in yellows, whites, greys, and black. Left-side semi-profile black-and-white photo of Jean-Paul Sartre, taken by Roger Parry in 1938.
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · 27d
#philsky

The cover art for the forthcoming ––

✨The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy ✨

–– is Marie Raymond's painting:

✨ Arabesques ou Variations sur la volute ✨ (1948)

For more on Marie Raymond, including images of many paintings, visit her archive's website: marieraymond.com
Cover of The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy featuring Marie Raymond's painting Arabesques ou Variations sur la volute, 1948, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.5 cm, © ADAGP, Paris, banque d’images de l’ADAGP The painting is an abstract in yellows, whites, greys, and black, combining curves, straight lines, rectangles, and partial triangles. Below it is the current Penguin Classics white band. Below that in a black rectangle are the book title and 'edited by Jonathan Webber' in white text.
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Kate Kirkpatrick @philosofemme.bsky.social · 27d
It might not make you all quite as jubilant, but this news made my heart jump this week: in April 2026 Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex will be published in the prestigious Bibliothèque de la Pléiade collection—a significant recognition of the work & of feminist philosophy in the cultural canon!
Black and white 1930s photo of three women in joyful motion: one cartwheeling and two jumping with their arms uplifted, all in flowing skirts. (Hannes Kilian, ‘Springende Mädchen auf einer Frühlingswiese’, 1938)
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Jonathan Webber @jonathanwebber.bsky.social · 29d
Coming soon ––

The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me

:: available now to pre-order from all good bookshops (and that bad one) ::

–– contents pages are in the thread below.

#philsky
Image is book cover with the release date beneath: 13 November 2025. Artwork on the book cover is Marie Raymond's painting Arabesques ou Variations sur la volute, 1948, oil on canvas, 91 x 72.5 cm, © ADAGP, Paris, banque d’images de l’ADAGP – an abstract painting in yellows, greys, whites, and black. Book is published in Penguin Classics.
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Aidan McGlynn @aidanmcglynn.bsky.social · Sep 7
'This is the Simone de Beauvoir Society' fits to that song in The Italian Job, in case you're wondering what will be looping through your mind 5 hours from now
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Feminist Ethics and Social Theory (FEAST) @feministphilosophy.bsky.social · Sep 7
Listen up! Submit your abstract for the 2026 Beauvoir Society conference on "Beauvoir & Reproduction: Politics, Labour, Biology, Lived Experience"🔥

Proposal abstracts are due **September 22, 2025**
Conference is May 2026 in Klagenfurt, Austria

Keynotes: Sylvie Chaperon & Stella Sandford
2026 Conference
Pour la version française , choisir le drapeau français en haut à gauche du site !
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · Aug 1
In 1984, HBO made a three-hour TV film of it starring Jodie Foster, which was then edited down for the French market into a 40-minute cinema release with dubbed dialogue.
Poster for VHS release of the English language version. In the main image, Jodie Foster is central and in the foreground flanked by Sam Neill and Michael Ontkean slightly behind her. They all look rather serious. Superimposed in front of them there is a knife bloodily stabbing a Nazi swastika. The film's strapline is "An obsession stronger than love. More violent than war". Poster for cinema release of French version. Essentially the same as the English language VHS cover except for some reason Foster and Neill are both looking out towards the viewer and smiling in a slightly dopey way. Guess they're supposed to look like they're in love, but they really just look rather vacant. And weirdly content.
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · Aug 1
80 years ago today ...

1 August 1945

Beauvoir published her second novel, Le Sang des autres. Set in Paris during the outbreak of the second world war, the novel explores tensions between individual relationships and political commitment.
Cover of the first edition of Beauvoir's novel Le Sang des Autres, in the classic and rather plain Gallimard style.
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · Jul 29
Two more free Rethinking Existentialism articles to celebrate #Fanon100 from the ever excellent @aeon.co magazine ::

1. A short piece on sedimentation in the existentialisms of Beauvoir and Fanon ::
Sedimentation: the existentialist challenge to stereotypes | Aeon Ideas
From stereotypes via sedimentation to behaviour: how existentialism can help us understand ourselves today
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · Jul 20
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To celebrate, here is Rethinking Existentialism Chapter 8 –– Black Skin, White Masks –– free to download for one week only ::
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Photograph of Frantz Fanon
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Review of African Political Economy @roapejournal.bsky.social · Jul 23
To mark Fanon’s 100th, Sam Chian revisits The Wretched of the Earth, examining Fanon’s critique of the national bourgeoisie and the working class while exploring his faith in the peasantry and international solidarity to achieve socialism. #Fanon100
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Sleeping beauty and the masses – Fanon’s class analysis of the postcolony - ROAPE
In the wake of Frantz Fanon’s 100th birthday, Sam Chian offers a close reading of The Wretched of the Earth, arguing that Fanon’s primary intervention lies in his class analysis of colonial…
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The Existentialist Offensive @rethinkexistent.bsky.social · Jul 27
‘The significance of Fanon lies in his attempt to wrestle with the contradictions of the European legacy ... It now fell to those struggling for freedom from colonial rule to “start a new history of man”.’

- @kenanmalik.bsky.social in today’s
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#fanon100 #philsky
What would Frantz Fanon say about Gaza? | The Observer
The postcolonial thinker's ideas were forged in the fire of Algerian liberation – but his views were more nuanced than his myth suggests
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · Jul 20
FRANTZ FANON AT 100
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Born 100 years ago today in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation.
Frantz Fanon at 100 - The Criterion Channel
Born 100 years ago this July in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation. His radical assertion of...
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Aeon Magazine @aeon.co · Jul 22
To celebrate the 100th anniversary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, we’re sharing this archive Essay on the existentialist philosophies of Fanon and Simone de Beauvoir, which offer important insights into the nature of prejudice #FrantzFanon @jonathanwebber.bsky.social buff.ly/HhoUcNp
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