Kate Kirkpatrick
Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, University of Oxford
I’m the Tutorial Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics at Regent's Park College, Oxford. My research focuses primarily on Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and I've written a few books on Sartre and Beauvoir and Existentialism more generally.
EXPs by Kate Kirkpatrick
Existentialism, if you take it as this theory about freedom and ethics, emerges in the mid-1940s. One of the ways that Sartre and Beauvoir expressed these ideas was through fiction.
The Second Sex was written in 18 months, an incredibly short period of time, and the story of its genesis is the stuff of legend.
Beauvoir’s life has often been received in a sexist way, and her work has often been received as derivative work.