Skye C. Cleary, PhD, MBA, is the author of How to Be Authentic: Simone de Beauvoir and the Quest for Fulfillment (St. Martin’s Press, 2022) and Existentialism and Romantic Love (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life: A Guide to Choosing Your Personal Philosophy (Vintage, 2020). She teaches at Columbia University, Barnard College, and the City College of New York.
Skye C. Cleary
Articles
This Undesirable Aspect: A Conversation with Regan Penaluna
Skye C. Cleary interviews Regan Penaluna about her new book, “How to Think Like a Woman: Four Women Philosophers Who Taught Me How to Love the Life of the Mind.”
Stay Mad: On Myisha Cherry’s “The Case for Rage”
Skye C. Cleary reviews Myisha Cherry’s new book, “The Case for Rage: Why Anger Is Essential to Anti-Racist Struggle.”
I Never Really Knew I Was Writing a Trilogy Until It Was Finished
Skye C. Cleary talks to Gary Cox about his latest book, "How to Be Good: or How to Be Moral and Virtuous in a Wicked World."
Out of Sartre’s Shadow
Skye C. Cleary reviews Kate Kirkpatrick's new biography of Simone de Beauvoir, "Becoming Beauvoir: A Life."
“The Weightiest Questions in the Smallest Number of Words”: Retelling the Nietzsche Story
Skye C. Cleary talks with Sue Prideaux about her latest biography, "I Am Dynamite!: A Life of Nietzsche."
It Takes Many Kinds to Dismantle a Patriarchal Village
Skye C. Cleary interviews Kate Manne, author of "Down Girl."
Rethinking Infidelity: Skye C. Cleary Interviews Esther Perel
Skye C. Cleary talks to renowned therapist Esther Perel about her new book, "The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity."
Hiking with Emerson
Skye C. Cleary interviews professor John Kaag about his recent book, "American Philosophy: A Love Story."
The Art of Excess
Skye C. Cleary talks to Gary Cox about his new biography, “Existentialism and Excess: The Life and Times of Jean-Paul Sartre.”
Love Is Never a Given
Skye C. Cleary talks to Andrea Miller about her new book, "Radical Acceptance: The Secret to Happy, Lasting Love."
Illuminating Love: On Carrie Jenkins’s “What Love Is”
Skye C. Cleary gets to the bottom of "What Love Is."
Applied Existentialism
The good-hearted Jean-Paul Sartre, the elegant Simone de Beauvoir, and the debonair Raymond Aron sat in a bar on Paris’s rue du Montparnasse.
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