Kate Kirkpatrick

Lecturer, University of Oxford

Kate Kirkpatrick is tutorial fellow in philosophy and Christian ethics at Regent’s Park College, University of Oxford. She is the author of, most recently, the biography Becoming Beauvoir (2019).

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Written by Kate Kirkpatrick

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essayAgeing and death

Old not Other

Here’s a puzzle: why do we neglect and disdain the one vulnerable group we all eventually will join? Beauvoir had an answer

Kate Kirkpatrick & Sonia Kruks

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essayLove and friendship

Love is a joint project

For Simone de Beauvoir, authentic love is an ethical undertaking: it can be spoilt by devotion as much as by selfishness

Kate Kirkpatrick

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Why Simone de Beauvoir didn’t believe in being ‘a strong woman’

Kate Kirkpatrick