To what extent does our social existence determine who we are? What is the meaning of sexuality for human existence? What is the meaning of "old age"? What is a woman? And what, for that matter, is a man? Setlla Sandford explores the philosophical basis of Beauvoir's reflections on theses and other questions, form her early moral period, through her postwar philosophical crisis, to the astounding polymathic studies of her matter thought. Se demonstrates the persistence of the fundamental existential and ethical questions that drove Beauvoir's work and her constant revisions of her own positions.
