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“Analysis of Claude Bernard’s Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine” © Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
“Two Unpublished Chapters from She Came to Stay” © Éditions Gallimard, 1979
Pyrrhus and Cineas © Éditions Gallimard, 1944
“A Review of The Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty” © Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
“Moral Idealism and Political Realism” © Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
“Existentialism and Popular Wisdom” © Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
“Jean-Paul Sartre” © Éditions Gallimard, 1979
“An Eye for an Eye” © Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
“Literature and Metaphysics” © Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
“Introduction to an Ethics of Ambiguity” © Éditions Gallimard, 1979
“An Existentialist Looks at Americans” © Éditions Gallimard, 1979
“What Is Existentialism?” © Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908–
Philosophical writings / Simone de Beauvoir ; edited by
Margaret A. Simons with the assistance of Marybeth Timmermann and Mary Beth Mader.
p.     cm. — (Beauvoir series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-252-02982-8 (cloth : alk. paper)/ISBN 978-0-252-02982-0
1. Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908—Philosophy. I. Simons, Margaret A. II.
Timmermann, Marybeth. III. Mader, Mary Beth. IV. Title.
PQ2603.E362A6       2004
844™.914—dc22       2004011785

The editors gratefully acknowledge the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, an independent federal agency, and a Matching Funds grant from the Illinois Board of Higher Education. This volume also received a translation grant from the French Ministry of Culture.