UK Sartre Society conference 2026 Maison Française d'Oxford :: 1 – 2 July Keynote Speakers –– Jane Hiddleston (Oxford) Marguerite La Caze (Queensland) Mark Wrathall (Oxford) :: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS :: :: deadline: 31 January :: Full details: mailchi.mp/3907c01fb30b...

It's Martin Luther King Jr. Day in the USA, so here's his handwritten index card on existentialism and a little thread on why Dr. King thought Jean-Paul Sartre was wrong about freedom. 1/ ⬇️

UK Sartre Society conference 2026 Maison Française d'Oxford :: 1 – 2 July Keynote Speakers –– Jane Hiddleston (Oxford) Marguerite La Caze (Queensland) Mark Wrathall (Oxford) :: CALL FOR ABSTRACTS :: :: deadline: 31 January :: Full details: mailchi.mp/3907c01fb30b...

“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!

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.

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.

“As Sartre went on to show in his later work of existentialist Marxism, it is often from the alienated, marked and stereotyped ‘us’ that collective struggle, political action, and a coordinated and resistant ‘we’ emerges.” :: Tris Hedges on Sartre’s analyses of the two aspects of collectivity ::

#philsky 30-minute interview with me on Dublin City FM about The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy ::

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

“When faced with greed, envy, calumny, perfidy, or lies, people […] say indulgently, ‘That's human!’ With an excuse like that, they clearly show that they are renouncing any expectations of generosity or greatness from man.” —Simone de Beauvoir In this new 🐧 📕 ed. @jonathanwebber.bsky.social 👏 👇

✨✨ The Penguin Book of Existentialist Philosophy edited by me is published today in the UK! (Australia and North America publication is next February.) ✨✨

24 October 1945: Sartre gives a lecture on existentialism in Brussels and one Iris Murdoch is in the audience. From her notes, this was clearly a version of the now rather famous lecture he was to give in Paris five days later.

Lewis Gordon on Frantz Fanon - our latest Philosophy Bites interview philosophybites.com/podcast/lewi...

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.

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.

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

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.

#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

#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

#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

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!

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

'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

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.

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.

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 ::

. . Happy *100th* birthday, Frantz Fanon! . . To celebrate, here is Rethinking Existentialism Chapter 8 –– Black Skin, White Masks –– free to download for one week only :: bit.ly/RethExistFan... . . #philsky

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 buff.ly/7YXVZnn

‘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 @theobserveruk.bsky.social :: #fanon100 #philsky

FRANTZ FANON AT 100 www.criterionchannel.com/frantz-fanon... Born 100 years ago today in Martinique, the psychiatrist, political philosopher and revolutionary Frantz Fanon inspired oppressed people worldwide to fight for liberation.

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

Photos from #UKSS2025 Day 2 — Philip Schmidt-Boddy developing a Sartrean account of the nature of vengeful emotion.

Back home after 2 rich days at the UK Sartre Society conference—on topics from Baudelaire to Zahavi, with Beauvoir, Châtelet, Hegel, Marx, Murdoch, Sartre, and Wittig in between. Metaphysics and metaethics, anxiety and alienation, seriousness and play, and more. Thanks all for a great conference!

Superb keynote lecture from Betty Cannon to round off #UKSS2025

Bright sunshine again for Day 2 of #UKSS2025 at @mfoxford.bsky.social

More photos from #ukss2025 Day 1 — Joshua Tepley responding to classic objections to Sartre’s conception of being-in-itself

Superb keynote lecture from :: Kate Kirkpatrick :: @philosofemme.bsky.social on the influences of various readings of Hegelianism and responses to it in Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. #ukss2025

Only one week left to register !

Registration is now open for our 2025 conference! To be held at Maison Française d'Oxford On Monday 7 and Tuesday 8 July Keynote speakers: Dr Betty Cannon (via zoom) Dr Kate Kirkpatrick Full details and registration: www.brownpapertickets.com/event/6625357

Dr Garcia was keynote speaker at our 2019 conference. Félicitations, Manon!

Simone de Beauvoir famously asked if it is right to be happy in a world that’s broken. | iai.tv/articles/hap... @skyecleary.bsky.social writes how happiness can be a form of resistance against the injustice and absurdity of life. #langsky

Existential therapy in the spotlight.

Call for papers –– :: Sartre Aujourd'hui :: Logoi 9.28 Deadline: 30 May 2025

Introductory comparisons of Baldwin and Sartre -- excerpt from the full film -- now free on YouTube ...

— The Woman Destroyed — :: Exhibition of Hélène de Beauvoir’s paintings opens in London this Friday. :: Runs until 2nd March.

Latest issue of Sartre Studies International out now! Featuring a symposium on Simone de Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins, with John Gillespie, Juliana de Albuquerque, Mary L. Edwards, and Dianna Taylor Titles of the issue's other papers are in the thread ... Ici: bit.ly/SSIv30i2

Latest issue of Sartre Studies International out now! Who's Still Afraid of Sartre? by Annie Cohen-Solal Symposium on Jonathan Webber's Rethinking Existentialism, with Matthew Eshleman, Kate Kirkpatrick, and Komarine Romdenh-Romluc A reading of La Nausée by Luca Tripadelli Ici: bit.ly/SSI301

Call for Abstracts: UK Sartre Society Conference (7-8 July 2025) At Maison Française d'Oxford. The UK Sartre Society invite abstracts on any aspects of the works of Beauvoir or Sartre. www.britishphenomenology.org.uk/call-for-abs...