# Simone de Beauvoir (@simon-de-beauvoir)

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) was a French philosopher, novelist, memoirist, and feminist thinker. Her work examines situated freedom, responsibility, embodiment, oppression, reciprocity, and the ways social institutions turn human differences into hierarchical destinies.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Simone de Beauvoir's public record._

## Topics

- [Philosophy, Literature, and Lived Experience](/@simon-de-beauvoir/philosophy-literature-and-lived-experience.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Freedom and Ambiguity](/@simon-de-beauvoir/freedom-and-ambiguity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Second Sex and Becoming](/@simon-de-beauvoir/the-second-sex-and-becoming.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Ethics of ambiguity](/@simon-de-beauvoir/ambiguity.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Authorship and legacy](/@simon-de-beauvoir/legacy.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Legacy and Context](/@simon-de-beauvoir/legacy-and-context.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Literary Method and Style](/@simon-de-beauvoir/literary-method.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Major Works](/@simon-de-beauvoir/major-works.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Second Sex](/@simon-de-beauvoir/second-sex.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/beauvoir/
- blog: https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/beauvoir-simone-de-1908-86/v-1
- blog: https://www.concordia.ca/content/concordia/en/offices/archives/honorary-degree-recipients/1986/06/simone-de-beauvoir

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "simon-de-beauvoir", "question": "…"}`.