Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone De Beauvoir

How does one go about taking Jean Paul Sartre's nihilistic solipsism and transforming it into a positive ethics for living in society? The answer has been under our noses all along, but it has taken Karen Vintges to tease it out of Simone de Beauvoir's writings. In a triumph of reason over misconception, Vintges frees Beauvoir from Sartre's shadow by demonstrating the unique contribution of her thinking to existentialism and its continuing relevance to contemporary feminism. If you consider passion as incompatible with philosophy, Beauvoir and Vintges may change your mind.