西蒙娜·德·波伏瓦(Simone de Beauvoir, 1908-1986),法国哲学家、作家、女性主义者。1929年通过法国哲学教师资格考试,曾在多所学校执教。1945年和让-保罗·萨特共同创办《现代》杂志,致力于推介存在主义观点。1949年出版《第二性》,引起极大反响,成为女性主义的经典。1954年凭小说《名士风流》获龚古尔文学奖。她和汉娜·阿伦特、苏珊·桑塔格并称为西方女性学术的三个中心。
"The continuos work of our life," says Montaigne, "is to build death." He quotes the Latin poets: Prima, quae vitam dedit, hora corpsit. And again: Nascentes morimur. Man knows and thinks this tragic ambivalence which the animal and the plant merely undergo. A new paradox is thereby introduced into h"
"Those who have accepted the dualism have established a hierarchy between body and soul which permits of considering as negligible the part of the self which cannot be saved. They have denied death, either by integrating it with life or by promising to man immortality. Or, again they have denied life"
"Hegel, with more ingenuity, tried to reject none of the aspects of man's condition and to reconcile them all. According to his system, the moment is preserved in the development of time; Nature asserts itself in the face of Spirit which denies it while assuming it; the individual is again found in t"