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Simone de Beauvoir: Two interviews

Apr 06, 2012 - Apr 28, 2012
Time & Space Limited

434 Columbia Street | Hudson, NY 12534 | 518-822-8322
http://www.timeandspace.org

Two interviews, recorded 16 years apart, illuminating the historic role, personality and thoughts of the novelist, philosopher and political activist who paved the way for Second-Wave Feminism.“Premier Plan” Program (40 mins.) In this interview filmed in Paris for Radio-Canada in 1959, de Beauvoir explains her philosophy, existentialism, her political commitment, and her theories on atheism and free love. “Why I am a feminist” (50 mins.) In this in-depth interview filmed in 1975 with famed French journalist Jean-Louis Servan-Schreiber about her book “The Second Sex,” de Beauvoir speaks with clarity and conviction about feminism and its future. For scheduled times (April 6-28) please visit timeandspace.org or call, 518-822-8448.