De baanbrekende biografie van Simone De Beauvoir verschijnt in nu als paperback. In dit veelbejubelde boek wordt De Beauvoir definitief neergezet als een van de belangrijkste denkers van de twintigste eeuw. Filosoof, schrijver en feministisch icoon – ze was het allemaal. Biografe Kate Kirkpatrick had voor het eerst toegang tot nooit eerder beschikbare dagboeken en correspondentie. Het resultaat is een echte pageturner: diepgravend, verrassend en ontroerend.

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The author of this book, Saint Luke the Confessor (his worldly name was Valentin Yasenetsky-Voyno), is a Russian saint of the twentieth century. He was born on April 27, 1877 in Kerch, Crimea and fell asleep in the Lord on June 11, 1961 in Simferopol, Crimea. Canonized by the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) in November 1995. He was a descendent of a Belarusian-Polish impoverished princely family, and he was archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Church and at the same time a promi...

Mongameli Anthony Mabona (1929) is a singular South African scholar with an exceptional life path. The history of British imperialism and apartheid shaped the world into which he was born. To a large extent, these powers had his destiny carved out for him. Nevertheless, a curious set of coincidences enabled him to obtain a tertiary education as a priest, to pursue his doctoral studies in Italy and to befriend Alioune Diop. He is one of the first published philosophers of Anglophone Africa and...