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Spotted in the wild! (at big Gower Street Waterstones) @jonathanwebber.bsky.social #philsky
September 14, 2026 at 11:27 AM
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Out now!
Special issue of Film–Philosophy on existentialism
17 original papers plus an introduction
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Out now!
Special issue of Film–Philosophy on existentialism
17 original papers plus an introduction
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Edinburgh University Press Journals - Table of Contents - film: Vol 30, No 2-3
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September 7, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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Out now!
Special issue of Film–Philosophy on existentialism
17 original papers plus an introduction
www.euppublishing.com/toc/film/30/...
Out now!
Special issue of Film–Philosophy on existentialism
17 original papers plus an introduction
www.euppublishing.com/toc/film/30/...
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to philosopher & biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about the life & thought of Simone de Beauvoir. How was Beauvoir shaped by her childhood & was she a reliable narrator of her own history?
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to philosopher & biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about the life & thought of Simone de Beauvoir. How was Beauvoir shaped by her childhood & was she a reliable narrator of her own history?
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BONUS EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to philosopher & biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about the life & thought of Simone de Beauvoir. How was Beauvoir shaped by her childhood & was she a reliable narrator of her own history?
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In today’s PPF+ bonus David talks to philosopher & biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about the life & thought of Simone de Beauvoir. How was Beauvoir shaped by her childhood & was she a reliable narrator of her own history?
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NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode exploring how 20th-century philosophy and biography intersect David talks to philosopher and biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about Jean-Paul Sartre, a thinker whose life has been as closely scrutinised as his ideas.
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In today’s episode exploring how 20th-century philosophy and biography intersect David talks to philosopher and biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about Jean-Paul Sartre, a thinker whose life has been as closely scrutinised as his ideas.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
September 2, 2026 at 7:49 AM
NEW EPISODE OUT NOW!
In today’s episode exploring how 20th-century philosophy and biography intersect David talks to philosopher and biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about Jean-Paul Sartre, a thinker whose life has been as closely scrutinised as his ideas.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
In today’s episode exploring how 20th-century philosophy and biography intersect David talks to philosopher and biographer @philosofemme.bsky.social about Jean-Paul Sartre, a thinker whose life has been as closely scrutinised as his ideas.
Find us at...🎧 ppfideas.com
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"Some people wouldn’t even see a biography as a philosophy book but, for me, I do like to understand thinkers in their context."
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The Best Philosophy Books of 2019
The best philosophy books of 2019, as recommended by British philosopher and Five Books philosophy editor Nigel Warburton.
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August 17, 2026 at 4:01 PM
"Some people wouldn’t even see a biography as a philosophy book but, for me, I do like to understand thinkers in their context."
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Spotted at (and bought from)
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Simone de Beauvoir's favourite (English language) bookshop!
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July 6, 2026 at 1:45 PM
Spotted at (and bought from)
Simone de Beauvoir's favourite (English language) bookshop!
@shakespeareandcompany.com
Simone de Beauvoir's favourite (English language) bookshop!
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#philsky #booksky
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
is now published in North America!
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here are some of the things people have said about it ...
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
is now published in North America!
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here are some of the things people have said about it ...
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy: 9780241645413 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance A Penguin Classic In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectua...
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June 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
is now published in North America!
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here are some of the things people have said about it ...
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
is now published in North America!
✨✨
here are some of the things people have said about it ...
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy: 9780241645413 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
A powerful new anthology that redefines ourunderstanding of existentialism and argues for itscontemporary relevance A Penguin Classic In the aftermath of the Second World War, a group of intellectua...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
June 17, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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UK Sartre Society 2026: Keynote Address titles and full information
1–2 July, Maison Française d'Oxford. Keynote Addresses from Jane Hiddleston, Marguerite La Caze, & Mark Wrathall - plus 28 selected papers.
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/07/u...
1–2 July, Maison Française d'Oxford. Keynote Addresses from Jane Hiddleston, Marguerite La Caze, & Mark Wrathall - plus 28 selected papers.
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/07/u...
June 7, 2026 at 4:03 PM
UK Sartre Society 2026: Keynote Address titles and full information
1–2 July, Maison Française d'Oxford. Keynote Addresses from Jane Hiddleston, Marguerite La Caze, & Mark Wrathall - plus 28 selected papers.
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/07/u...
1–2 July, Maison Française d'Oxford. Keynote Addresses from Jane Hiddleston, Marguerite La Caze, & Mark Wrathall - plus 28 selected papers.
www.thebsp.org.uk/2026/06/07/u...
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Keynote Addresses for this year's conference:
Negritude and Ecology in Sartre, Fanon, and Césaire
– Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Will We Make It? Beauvoir and Jeunes Mères
– Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Ontological Pluralism in Sartre and Heidegger
– Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
1–2 July in Oxford ...
Negritude and Ecology in Sartre, Fanon, and Césaire
– Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Will We Make It? Beauvoir and Jeunes Mères
– Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Ontological Pluralism in Sartre and Heidegger
– Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
1–2 July in Oxford ...
May 25, 2026 at 5:47 PM
Keynote Addresses for this year's conference:
Negritude and Ecology in Sartre, Fanon, and Césaire
– Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Will We Make It? Beauvoir and Jeunes Mères
– Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Ontological Pluralism in Sartre and Heidegger
– Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
1–2 July in Oxford ...
Negritude and Ecology in Sartre, Fanon, and Césaire
– Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Will We Make It? Beauvoir and Jeunes Mères
– Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Ontological Pluralism in Sartre and Heidegger
– Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
1–2 July in Oxford ...
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plus 28 selected papers!
Hosted by Maison Française d'Oxford in their beautiful building (@mfoxford.bsky.social)
Full details:
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Hosted by Maison Française d'Oxford in their beautiful building (@mfoxford.bsky.social)
Full details:
bit.ly/UKSS2026
May 25, 2026 at 5:50 PM
plus 28 selected papers!
Hosted by Maison Française d'Oxford in their beautiful building (@mfoxford.bsky.social)
Full details:
bit.ly/UKSS2026
Hosted by Maison Française d'Oxford in their beautiful building (@mfoxford.bsky.social)
Full details:
bit.ly/UKSS2026
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I still have a book of yours on Camus which I hope you will come and collect.
May 23, 2026 at 6:36 PM
I still have a book of yours on Camus which I hope you will come and collect.
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My interview with the Guardian on the publication of my first book for a wider audience is in the books section today.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
Her philosophical approach to therapy has become a global phenomenon, and inspired a new book. Could a session with her change Sophie McBain’s life?
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2026 at 10:37 AM
My interview with the Guardian on the publication of my first book for a wider audience is in the books section today.
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/m...
‘One of the most profound encounters of my life’: could existential therapist Emmy van Deurzen change the way you think?
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UK Sartre Society conference 2026
Maison Française d'Oxford :: 1 – 2 July
Keynote Speakers ––
Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
:: Registration is now open! ::
Full details:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Maison Française d'Oxford :: 1 – 2 July
Keynote Speakers ––
Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
:: Registration is now open! ::
Full details:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
April 4, 2026 at 7:55 AM
UK Sartre Society conference 2026
Maison Française d'Oxford :: 1 – 2 July
Keynote Speakers ––
Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
:: Registration is now open! ::
Full details:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
Maison Française d'Oxford :: 1 – 2 July
Keynote Speakers ––
Jane Hiddleston (Oxford)
Marguerite La Caze (Queensland)
Mark Wrathall (Oxford)
:: Registration is now open! ::
Full details:
www.trybooking.com/uk/events/la...
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Parution aujourd'hui :
Écrits et paroles féministes de Simone de Beauvoir
Écrits et paroles féministes de Simone de Beauvoir
April 2, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Parution aujourd'hui :
Écrits et paroles féministes de Simone de Beauvoir
Écrits et paroles féministes de Simone de Beauvoir
“If truth be told, one is not born, but becomes, a genius; and the feminine condition has, until now, rendered this becoming impossible.”
- Happy 118th birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
- Happy 118th birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
January 9, 2026 at 9:17 AM
“If truth be told, one is not born, but becomes, a genius; and the feminine condition has, until now, rendered this becoming impossible.”
- Happy 118th birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
- Happy 118th birthday, Simone de Beauvoir!
Joyeaux Noël !
December 25, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Joyeaux Noël !
11 December 1945:
Beauvoir gave a lecture titled ‘Roman et métaphysique’ at Club Maintenant in Paris.
Beauvoir argued that novels can provide richer and more nuanced metaphysical visions of human reality than is possible using the skeletal abstractions of philosophical prose.
Beauvoir gave a lecture titled ‘Roman et métaphysique’ at Club Maintenant in Paris.
Beauvoir argued that novels can provide richer and more nuanced metaphysical visions of human reality than is possible using the skeletal abstractions of philosophical prose.
December 11, 2025 at 5:38 PM
11 December 1945:
Beauvoir gave a lecture titled ‘Roman et métaphysique’ at Club Maintenant in Paris.
Beauvoir argued that novels can provide richer and more nuanced metaphysical visions of human reality than is possible using the skeletal abstractions of philosophical prose.
Beauvoir gave a lecture titled ‘Roman et métaphysique’ at Club Maintenant in Paris.
Beauvoir argued that novels can provide richer and more nuanced metaphysical visions of human reality than is possible using the skeletal abstractions of philosophical prose.
7 December 1945:
Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles, which had been first performed on 29 October, is published.
An English translation is available as The Useless Mouths.
Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles, which had been first performed on 29 October, is published.
An English translation is available as The Useless Mouths.
December 7, 2025 at 10:05 AM
7 December 1945:
Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles, which had been first performed on 29 October, is published.
An English translation is available as The Useless Mouths.
Beauvoir’s play Les Bouches Inutiles, which had been first performed on 29 October, is published.
An English translation is available as The Useless Mouths.
2 December 1945:
Sartre publishes the second novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté ––
Le Sursis is set during ‘the phoney war’ of September 1939 to March 1940, after the war was declared but before the fighting had begun.
An English translation is available from Penguin as The Reprieve.
Sartre publishes the second novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté ––
Le Sursis is set during ‘the phoney war’ of September 1939 to March 1940, after the war was declared but before the fighting had begun.
An English translation is available from Penguin as The Reprieve.
December 2, 2025 at 4:55 PM
2 December 1945:
Sartre publishes the second novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté ––
Le Sursis is set during ‘the phoney war’ of September 1939 to March 1940, after the war was declared but before the fighting had begun.
An English translation is available from Penguin as The Reprieve.
Sartre publishes the second novel in his series Les Chemins de la Liberté ––
Le Sursis is set during ‘the phoney war’ of September 1939 to March 1940, after the war was declared but before the fighting had begun.
An English translation is available from Penguin as The Reprieve.
1 December 1945:
Les Temps Modernes issue 3 is published.
Beauvoir’s ‘L’existentialisme et la sagesse des nations’ – by far the best short introduction to existentialism ever published – is the lead article.
Sartre’s highly influential ‘Portrait de l’antisémite’ is in the same issue.
Les Temps Modernes issue 3 is published.
Beauvoir’s ‘L’existentialisme et la sagesse des nations’ – by far the best short introduction to existentialism ever published – is the lead article.
Sartre’s highly influential ‘Portrait de l’antisémite’ is in the same issue.
December 1, 2025 at 4:36 PM
1 December 1945:
Les Temps Modernes issue 3 is published.
Beauvoir’s ‘L’existentialisme et la sagesse des nations’ – by far the best short introduction to existentialism ever published – is the lead article.
Sartre’s highly influential ‘Portrait de l’antisémite’ is in the same issue.
Les Temps Modernes issue 3 is published.
Beauvoir’s ‘L’existentialisme et la sagesse des nations’ – by far the best short introduction to existentialism ever published – is the lead article.
Sartre’s highly influential ‘Portrait de l’antisémite’ is in the same issue.
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30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
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30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
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November 28, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
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30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM
about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
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15 November 1945:
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
November 15, 2025 at 10:12 AM
15 November 1945:
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
An interview with Camus appears on the front page of Les Nouvelle’s Littéraires headlined:
‘NON, je ne suis pas existentialiste’, nous dit ALBERT CAMUS
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✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
'Superb ... I can't imagine a better way of meeting the existentialists in all their variety' - Sarah Bakewell, author of At the Existentialist Café
‘We are thrown into the world at every moment, an...
www.penguin.co.uk
November 13, 2025 at 2:08 PM
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨
The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy
edited by me
is published today in the UK!
(Australia and North America publication is next February.)
✨✨