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The memoir that changed my mind – 11 experts share a perspective‑shifting read

Our beliefs aren’t fixed. They’re shaped, stretched and sometimes overturned by the ideas we encounter as we move through life. For many of us, memoirs are the moments where that shift happens, through an argument that unsettles us or an inspiring story that re-frames how we see the world. We…

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You can love an AI but can it love you back? Philosophy has the answer

We often speak of loving things like a cosy sweater or new camera. But this talk is not generally taken literally. It’s a kind of emotional shorthand. We use it to express our fondness for precious objects.

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“Can Your Brain Keep Up?”: Beat This 24-Question Philosophy & Culture Quiz

Prove you are a great thinker with this 24-question philosophy & culture quiz. From Latin phrases to iconic philosophers, to political revolutions, thought experiments, and famous literary works, this challenge will take you across more than 2000 years of ideas that shaped the modern world. You'll encounter figures such as…

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Quote of the Day by Simone de Beauvoir: The woman who taught the world about gender equality — “Equality is not achieved when women become like men, but when every person is...” A timeless lesson on why equal opportunity, not gender roles, drives human freedom, progress, and social growth

Quote of the Day by Simone de Beauvoir: Simone de Beauvoir's message remains powerful today. Gender equality grows when opportunity is shared, not restricted. Societies advance when talent matters more than labels. Equal opportunity unlocks innovation, leadership, and human potential. Real freedom begins when women and men can pursue their…

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Quote of the Day by Simone de Beauvoir: ‘No one is more arrogant toward women, more aggressive or…’ Why do some people need to belittle others? The brutal warning about ego and insecurity

Quote of the Day: The quote invites us to reflect on our own responses to insecurity and self-doubt. Everyone encounters moments of uncertainty about themselves, but what truly matters is how they choose to handle those feelings.

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Paris launches lottery for burial plots near Jim Morrison, Édith Piaf and Oscar Wilde

Fancy having your final resting place next to the stars? Parisians are being offered the chance to win a burial spot among some of history's most famous artists, including the Doors' Jim Morrison, author Oscar Wilde and French singer Édith Piaf.

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‘Lived experience’ is valued in activism – but is it doing more harm than good?

The idea of “lived experience” – knowledge gained through direct, personal experience – is now central in activism, academia and politics. Popularised by feminist thinkers like Simone de Beauvoir and concepts like standpoint theory, it makes sense that people see the world differently based on what they’ve been through. And…

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De Beauvoir’s 1960s heroine shows little has changed since

This is a new translation by Lauren Elkin of a shortish Simone de Beauvoir book, Les Belles Images, first published in 1966. The book’s aim is to identify the source of its heroine’s discontent. But on the journey inside her mind and life, we get a good account of how…

Evening Standard

‘Jean-Paul Sartre hid at her house!’ The forgotten brilliance of Hélène de Beauvoir, sister of Simone

She was a painter ‘ahead of her time’, counting Picasso as a fan. But Hélène de Beauvoir was always overshadowed by her famous sister. Now, with a show opening in Britain, the artist is finally receiving her due

The Guardian - UK

Climate change is forcing us to rethink our sense of ‘home’ – and what it means to lose it

The Los Angeles wildfires are causing the devastating loss of people’s homes.

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The History of Ideas by David Runciman review – casting around

A spinoff from the podcast of the same name, this potted philosophical primer fails to live up to its title

The Guardian - UK

France’s exceptional women, their imprint on diplomacy

France champions a feminist foreign policy, with a dedicated strategy that seeks to mainstream the promotion of gender equality and the rights of women and girls in all its bilateral undertakings

The Hindu

Simone de Beauvoir, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil and Ayn Rand all felt 'different' in the world – and changed the way we think

The “actual impulse of astonishment” that sparks all philosophising is “honest bafflement that other people live as they do,” writes Wolfram Eilenberger in his new book, The Visionaries.

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Marta Zabaleta obituary

Other lives: Argentinian academic and socialist activist who fled to the UK in the country’s 1973 military coup

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The Visionaries review – seers who were shaped by the shadow of war

Wolfram Eilenberger’s group biography of Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir, Ayn Rand and Simone Weil illuminates how the horrors of the 1930s informed the philosophers’ worldviews – with the ‘saintly’ Weil the star of the show

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The Visionaries by Wolfram Eilenberger review – four women who changed the world

The complicated lives and questing minds of Ayn Rand, Hannah Arendt, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil

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A Life of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs review – on the shoulders of giants

The lives of female authors provide inspiration for a woman who finds herself starting over after divorce

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Margaret Atwood: ‘It would be fun to talk to Simone de Beauvoir’

The author on being banned in Virginia, communicating with dead writers and her new short story collection, the first since the death of her partner

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20 Feminist Books About Women's Rights to Add to Your Reading List Right Now

The only reading list you'll need this International Women's Day

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Colin Thubron: ‘Simone de Beauvoir altered my ideas about women’

The travel writer and novelist on reading The Second Sex as an 18-year-old, discovering Proust, and the brilliance of Byron

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Annie Ernaux, French feminist who uses language as 'a knife', wins Nobel Prize for Literature

Annie Ernaux was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on October 6. The 82-year-old writer, whose sociological autofiction and memoir is influenced by Simone de Beauvoir and Pierre Bourdieu, is the first French woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature since the founding of the awards in 1901. Ernaux…

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Fab abs, Nicole Kidman. But this frantic effort to look half your age is frankly demeaning

Trying to stave off the advancing years is fine for a superstar. If only we mortals had the time

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Revolution and the arts: how Picasso inspired the Arab world

What were the connections between the Spanish artist Pablo Picasso and contemporary artists across the Middle East and north Africa? That is the question raised by the Institut du Monde Arabe in the French city of Tourcoing, with an exhibition reuniting 70 works by artists from Algeria to Syria –…

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