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Simone de Beauvoir - Political Writings - 9780252036941 - V9780252036941
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Political Writings

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Description for Political Writings Hardback.
Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy.

The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from exposés of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945 and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in ... Read more

Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
384
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252036941
SKU
V9780252036941
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Simone de Beauvoir
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her works, including She Came to Stay (1943), Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), and The Second Sex (1949). Margaret A. Simons is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of ... Read more

Reviews for Political Writings
"Rich and illuminating. . . . A fascinating chart of a brilliant mind struggling to bridge the divide between rarified abstract thinking and concrete social engagement."
Publishers Weekly "Political Writings likely will shed new light on aspects of de Beauvoir's political thought for those who are familiar with her only through The Second Sex. . . . Recommended."
Choice   "This ... Read more

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