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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Simone de Beauvoir; Marybeth Timmermann; Margaret A Simons |
| ISBN: | 0252097203 9780252097201 9780252036941 0252036948 |
| OCLC Number: | 1241761277 |
| Language Note: | English. |
| Notes: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. |
| Target Audience: | Specialized. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (x, 394 p. ). |
| Contents: | Introduction / Margaret A. Simons -- Political reporting from Spain, Portugal, and the United States / introduction by Eleanore Holveck -- Must we burn sade? / introduction by Debra Bergoffen -- Right-wing thought today / introduction by Sonia Kruks -- Merleau-ponty and pseudo-sartreanism / introduction by William Wilkerson -- Preface to Djamila Boupacha / introduction by Julien S. Murphy -- In France today, killing goes unpunished / introduction by Karen L. Shelby -- Essays on Israel and the holocaust / introduction by Susan Rubin Suleiman -- A walk through the land of old age / introduction by Oliver Davis. |
| Other Titles: | Works. |
| Responsibility: | Simone de Beauvoir ; edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann ; foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. |
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"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 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 "This remarkable volume demonstrates how Simone de Beauvoir, through her writings, made compelling contributions to the ongoing struggle against ignorance, deception and injustice."--H-France Review "An accessible and worldly series of papers . . . . for readers of Beauvoir, this compilation provides ample opportunity to find ties to her other work, to illustrate parts of her philosophical writing that are overly abstract or opaque, and to reflect on how thinking is, necessarily, and importantly, situated."--Philosophy in Review "This unique contribution to Beauvoir scholarship displays the range and depth of her political activism and thought on behalf of women and the oppressed worldwide. This fantastic volume took my breath away and left me more than ever in awe of Beauvoir."--Claudia Card, author of Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide "Political Writings is a carefully selected and newly translated compilation of some of Beauvoir's essays that reflect the eclectic nature of the writer's thoughts, the depth of her analysis and the sheer literary and aesthetic force of her language. . . . Not only are the introductions a pleasure in themselves to read, they also provide the politico-historical context in which the essays were written, allowing the reader to appreciate them all the more."--Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Read more...
