Political Writings - Rilegato

Beauvoir, Simone De

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ISBN 10: 0252036948 ISBN 13: 9780252036941

Casa editrice: Univ of Illinois Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. 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 the 1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter Djamila Boupacha and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the "two-state solution" in Israel. In addition, this collection includes provocative essays in which Beauvoir analyzes American politics in ways of particular interest to scholars today.

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Recensione:

"This remarkable collection will be most surprising and provocative for thinkers yearning for a political philosophy to accompany Beauvoir's feminist and ethical philosophies. These essays, many of them appearing for the first time in English, make clear Beauvoir's turn away from the abstract philosophical thought and toward political engagement." --Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human

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Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her works, including 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 Existentialism. Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and many other works by Beauvoir. Marybeth Timmermann is a contributing translator and editor of Beauvoir's Philosophical Writings. A volume in The Beauvoir Series, edited by Margaret A. Simons and Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir

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• Editore: Univ of Illinois Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0252036948
• ISBN 13: 9780252036941
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 394
• Redattore: Simons Margaret A., Timmermann Marybeth