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Simone de Beauvoir did Sartre's philosophy better than Sartre did. Really like Bakewell's claim that The Second Sex as a work should stand alongside the works of Charles Darwin (who re-situated humans in relation to other animals), Karl Marx (who re-situated high culture in relation to economics) and Sigmund Freud (who re-situated the conscious mind in relation to the unconscious).

I can't lie the chapters on Husserl and Heidegger were not the most interesting to read. It seemed the phenomenologists delighted in being obtuse, Heidegger especially. At least Bakewell's explanations gave me a fighting chance in understanding the ideas of these two. Reading about the personal lives of Sartre and Beauvoir was fascinating though. Merleau-Ponty seems like the only mentally well-adjusted guy here so fa