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Simone de Beauvoir Simone de Beauvoir is a French novelist and philosopher, she is largely responsible for inaugurating the modern feminist movement as well as significantly influencing the later views of Sartre, De Beauvoir has become, wittingly or otherwise, the heroine of feminists across the world. Introduction: Mainly philosophical achievements Simone de Beauvoir?did not consider herself a philosopher, but she had a significant influence on both?feminist existentialism and feminist theory. De Beauvoir wrote novels, essays, biographies, autobiography and?monographs?on philosophy, politics and social issues. Her most significant philosophical works are The ethics of Ambiguity and, the bible of feminism, The Second Sex. Her philosophical approach is notably diverse. Her influences include French philosophy from?Descartes?to Bergson, the phenomenology of?Edmund Husserl and?Martin Heidegger, the historical materialism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, and the idealism of?Immanuel Kant?and?G.W.F Hegel. In addition to her philosophical pursuits, de Beauvoir was also an accomplished literary figure, and her novel,?The Mandarins, received the prestigious?Prix Goncourt?award in 1954. Mainly philosophical achievements In this book, she developed an existentialist ethics that condemned the “spirit of seriousness” in which people too readily identify with certain abstractions at the expense of individual freedom and responsibility.? The Ethics of Ambiguity In this book, she produced an articulate attack on the fact that throughout history women have been relegated to a sphere of “immanence,” and the passive acceptance of roles assigned to them by society.?? The Second Sex (1949) The Second Sex (1949) The end of 1st wave of feminism and beginning of 2nd wave of feminism Main idea of the book Based on existencialism Women as the second sex The second sex as derived from the first sex. Women have been defined as secondary to men who have been seen as the pri