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41. Simone de Beauvoir et le cours du monde (French Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 167
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(1978)
Isbn: 225202058X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
42. Briefe an Simone de Beauvoir und andere 1. 1929 - 1939. by Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 544
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(1998-01-01)
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43. Quiet Moments in a War: The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone De Beauvoir 1940-1963 by Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Hardcover: 320
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(1993-11)
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44. The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend: Simone De Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre by Kate Fullbrook, Edward Fullbrook | |
Paperback: 214
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(1994-03-01)
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Parallel lives The cat was out of the bag, so to speak, when the war journals of Sartre were published just after his death.Simone de Beauvoir did some fast jockeying of dates which was not totally convincing to her biographer, these authors write.It would seem that she had gotten so used to the falsities presented to the world she could not bear to have the truth revealed, even when the truth was complimentary to her. It is necessary to understand how revolutionary she was when she began writing in the 1930's and took the position that for the sake of freedom she must refuse the offer of marriage given to her by Sartre.It turns out that he was a very good at articulating the philosophy the couple devised. False stories did more than cover up de Beauvoir's evident orginality, they also covered up her sexual adventures which could have been misconstrued by the public in general. The book is a delight.The writers give full praise to previous biographers.It is comforting to learn some truths since the myth-making did strike this reader as far-fetched.Nonetheless, one is left with a nagging sense that surely if philosophers fail to tell the truth, should not this mean that their worksbe taken less seriously.
Fullbrooks' False Claims "The crux of their argument is the assertion that Sartre's reading of the draft of L'Invitée during his leave in Paris between 4 and 16 February 1940 was what provided him with all or most of the crucial ideas that were to form the substance of L'Etre et le Néant. [...]Now, there are least four MAJOR flaws in this line of argument: (i) we do not know with certainty exactly what was in the parts of L'Invitée that Sartre read in February 1940; (ii) the argument ignores completely Beauvoir's acquaintance with drafts of Sartre's L'Age de raison, and also seriously underplays the philosophical content of those of Sartre's Carnets de la drôle de guerre that Beauvoir had read before February 1940; (iii) we DO know that Sartre had been working since the mid-1930s on the ideas that were to be central to L'Etre et le Néant; (iv) the momentous philosophical system that the Fullbrooks ascribe to Beauvoir is simply not to be found in even the final version of L'Invitée." Since, as Sharon Wright points out, the Fullbrooks were far from the first to argue for the philosophical originality of Beauvoir, those of their claims that are demonstrably false have done nothing to promote this case. Rather, they have tended to obscure, and direct attention away from, many of the complex and fascinating questions concerning the relationship between the thought of Beauvoir and that of Sartre. What is more, some of the sensationalist, journalistic features of the style of the book have served to inflame sensitive issues that require particularly cool, rational treatment.
Seven Years After |
45. Simone de Beauvoir's Political Thinking | |
Paperback: 152
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(2006-06-12)
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Editorial Review Product Description The first book devoted exclusively to Beauvoir’s politics By exploring the life and work of the influential feminist thinker Simone de Beauvoir, this book shows how each of us lives within political and social structures that we can--and must--play a part in transforming. It argues that Beauvoir’s careful examination of her own existence can also be understood as a dynamic method for political thinking. As the contributors illustrate, Beauvoir's political thinking proceeds from the bottom up, using examples from individual lives as the basis for understanding and transforming our collective existence. For example, she embraced her responsibility as a French citizen as making her complicit in the French war against Algeria. Here, she sees her role as an oppressor. In other contexts, she looks to the lives of individual women, including herself, to understand the dimensions of gender inequality. This volume’s six tightly connected essays home in on the individual’s relationship to community, and how one’s freedom interacts with the freedom of other people. Here, Beauvoir is read as neither a liberal nor a communitarian. The authors focus on her call for individuals to realize their freedom while remaining consistent with ethical obligations to the community. Beauvoir's account of her own life and the lives of others is interpreted as a method to understand individuals in relations to others, and as within structures of personal, material, and political oppression. Beauvoir's political thinking makes it clear that we cannot avoid political action. To do nothing in the face of oppression denies freedom to everyone, including oneself. |
46. The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) | |
Paperback: 360
Pages
(2003-03-10)
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47. Adieux: A Farewell to Sartre by Simone De Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 464
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(1985-02-12)
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A work of real meaning, despite,..
Never thought that Sartre could make you cry?
A Beaver's Tale |
48. The Prime of Life: The Autobiography of Simone De Beauvoir by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 479
Pages
(1992-03)
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"Happiness is a rarer vocation than people suppose."
An adventurous ride through time
Engaging personal experience of a worldwide story This one was harder to break into than the first, I felt, as she began somewhat vaguely about her philosophy, the things she was working on, etc. The first part of the book vaguely and distantly describes the beginning of her relationship with Jean-Paul Sartre, so the personal is perhaps rather squashed here (maybe that's why I found it less engaging than "Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter" at first). But as I made my way forward, I found the same compelling qualities of the first, and more -- as de Beauvoir is older: Her interests and her circle of friends are expanding. This book is interesting on so many levels, and I would recommend it to stand on its own (it doesn't have to be read as part of the whole), as well. It's interesting, as the first one was, for the way she describes her life in Paris at the time (she names all the cafes, neighborhoods, etc., that she frequents), and, as the first one, because it still dwells on how she is beginning her professional life that would lead her to be one of the foremost twentieth century philosophers and writers. So it's got something on both personal and broader themes. But this book also adds the elements of the writer, as during its years, de Beauvoir writes her first books "She Came to Stay" and "The Blood of Others." I like to read about how writers work, their processes, and de Beauvoir very interestingly dissects her work in retrospect, writing things like, "What I was trying to accomplish at the time through Francoise's character was... but I see now that she comes across as ..." De Beauvoir was a very vigilant and disciplined worker, researcher and writer, and she writes of these routines. For writers interested in how others work, where they get their ideas and how they edit and redraft, I would certainly recommend this. But this work is also interesting on another level; its most compelling part is when she details the beginning of WWII and the occupation of Paris. Rather than summarize it with the view the passing years have given her, de Beauvoir excerpts her diaries from the time, so that the reader feels the fears, understands the unknown dangers that she felt and gets the immediacy and intimacy of the worries of Parisiens such as de Beauvoir. I really couldn't put these sections down as she wrote about fleeing the Nazi occupiers, then deciding that if Sartre were released, he would only be able to find her in Paris and her desperate journey home again. The book also starts a theme I can see will continue in all of them, outlining her travels as she (sometimes alone, sometimes with Sartre or others) goes around France and abroad and writes of how she feels and what she discovers there. In this volume, to name a few, she goes to Greece, Spain and all over The voice of these autobiographies is somewhat distant and aloof, which I find useful, as she seems intent on presenting her life very objectively, but when Sartre is attacked or criticized, she loses this coolness of tone and makes personal attacks on his critics. The last aspect I'll mention of this long volume (nearly 500 pages) is the circle of friends she creates. She happens to befriend Alberto Giacometti, who is my favorite artist, in Paris and writes very fondly of his intellect and engaging conversations. She meets Hemingway and is an aquaintance of Picasso and his longtime lover Dora Marr. She also meets Cocteau through Sartre's theatrical work. I found the wartime writing of this second one particularly engaging and probably of wider interest than the episodes of de Beauvoir's daily life later on... but we'll see!
readable, juicy, challenging, fascinating |
49. The Prime of Life by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Hardcover: 479
Pages
(1962)
Asin: B0000CLNJ7 Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
50. Philosophical Writings (Beauvoir Series) by Simone De Beauvoir, Marybeth Timmermann, Mary Beth Mader | |
Hardcover: 368
Pages
(2005-01-26)
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51. Feminist Interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir (Re-Reading the Canon) | |
Paperback: 336
Pages
(1995-01-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description Feminist scholars reacted to news of Beauvoir's death in 1986 by initiating a reevaluation of her life's work, a task encouraged by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, her adopted daughter, who edited for posthumous publication many of Beauvoir's personal notebooks and letters to Sartre.Some of the most exciting new interpretations of Beauvoir's philosophy that have resulted are brought together here for the first time; many of them, indeed, were written expressly for this first volume of essays on Beauvoir's philosophy written since her death. From phenomenology and literary criticism to analytic philosophy and postmodern deconstruction, this collection presents a unique variety of methodological approaches to reading Beauvoir: placing her within the phenomenological tradition and identifying the Husserlean influence on her work; using the posthumously published letters and notebooks to shed light on Beauvoir's own experience of oppression and to deconstruct the philosophical movement that exploited her; analyzing the themes and structure of Beauvoir's novel The Mandarins to study her philosophy of the erotic; examining the structure of her argument about women's biology and sexual difference to challenge the criticism of Beauvoir's phallocentricism; locating her writings on decolonization as a historical antecedent of the postmodern philosophy of destruction.Of particular interest may be the scholarly reading of little-known texts, such as Beauvoir's essay on the Marquis de Sade, or her essay "Literature and Metaphysics," in the context of her better-known texts, such as Ethics of Ambiguity, to trace Beauvoir's philosophical development and challenge the view that Beauvoir was either Sartrean or phallocentric. |
52. Existentialism, Feminism and Simone De Beauvoir by Joseph Mahon | |
Hardcover: 255
Pages
(1997-09-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays of the 1940s she produced not just a recognizably existentialist ethics, but also a character ethics and an ethics for violence. These concerns, stemming from her own personal philosophical background, give a vital, contemporary resonance to her work. De Beauvoir`s feminist classic The Second Sex reflects her earlier philosophical interests, and is considerably strengthened by this influence. This book defends her existentialist feminism against the many reproaches which have been levelled against it over several decades, not least the criticism that it is steeped in Sartrean masculinism. |
53. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays (A Hypatia Book) | |
Hardcover: 336
Pages
(2006-05-25)
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Editorial Review Product Description Contributors are Nancy Bauer, Debra Bergoffen, Suzanne Laba Cataldi, Edward Fullbrook, Eva Gothlin, Sara Heinämaa, Laura Hengehold, Stacy Keltner, Michèle Le Doeuff, Ann Murphy, Shannon M. Mussett, Margaret A. Simons, Ursula Tidd, Andrea Veltman, Karen Vintges, Julie Ward, Gail Weiss. |
54. Simone de Beauvoir (World of Philosophy) by Professor Ladelle McWhorter | |
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(2006-08-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description The World of Philosophy series is a dramatic presentation, in understandable language, of the concerns, questions, interests, and overall outlook of the world’s great philosophers and philosophical traditions. Special emphasis on clear and relevant explanations gives you a new arsenal of insights toward living a better life. |
55. Les Belles Images by Simone De Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 154
Pages
(1973)
Isbn: 0006135978 Average Customer Review: Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
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A beautiful and engaging novel |
56. Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Nathalie Sarraute by Elisabeth Badinter, Lucette Finas, Jacques Lassalle | |
Paperback: 60
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(2002-11-17)
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57. Les Belles Images (Flamingo) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 160
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(1985-11-14)
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Going beneath all the beautiful images |
58. Das Andere Geschlecht (German Edition) by Simone de Beauvoir | |
Paperback: 941
Pages
(2000-11-09)
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59. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance (Ideas in Context) by Penelope Deutscher | |
Hardcover: 222
Pages
(2008-08-11)
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60. The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's 'The Mandarins' | |
Hardcover: 244
Pages
(2005-10-06)
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