In the monuments to the dead that study my history, it is I who am buried!.
Simone de Beauvoir.
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The present paper aims to read Beauvoir through the diaries that she has written in 1926–1927. Firstly, by reading these diaries I endeavor to understand the philosophical culmination of her thoughts which begin from her diaries. Secondly, after elucidating her philosophical views on self and other from her diaries I would like to make a larger philosophical argument in relation to the originality and ingenuity of Beauvoir as a philosopher and a thinker. She stands independent of Sartre and her diaries bear the originality of her philosophical concepts.
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See Simons (1995, p. 63).
See Moi (2009, p. 1).
See Beauvoir (2006 edited by Barbara Klaw, p. 53).
Moi (2009, p. 2).
Beauvoir (edited by Barbara Klaw 2006, p. 87).
Beauvoir (2006, p. 64).
Ibid, p. 226.
Craid (1979).
See Altman (2007, p.1).
See Beauvoir (edited by Barbara Klwa p.67)
Craig (1979, p. 23).
Pilardi (1999, p. 23).
See Beauvoir (2006, p. 185).
Beauvoir (2006, p. 69).
Beauvoir (1960, p. 62).
Beauvoir (2006, p. 163).
See Beauvoir (2006, p. 43).
Beauvoir (2006, p. 260).
Beauvoir (Edited by Barbara Klaw) page no 77.
Sussane (2006, p. 12).
See Beauvoir (2006, p. 67).
Beauvoir (2006, p. 163).
See Ibid (2006, p. 256).
See Ibid (2006, p. 261).
Ibid (2006, p. 29).
See Vintages (1996).
Diaries of a student. Beauvoir. (P. 22)
See Debra (1997).
Ibid (2006, p. 167).
Ibid (1989, p. 23).
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Shukla, R. Reading Beauvoir Through her Diaries as a Student. J. Indian Counc. Philos. Res. 34, 175–186 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40961-016-0073-7
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