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The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir : critical essays
Since her death in 1986 and the publication of her letters and diaries in
1990, interest in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir has never been greater. In
this engaging and timely volume, Margaret A. Simons and an international group of
philosophers present 16 essays that reveal Beauvoir as one of the century's most
important and influential thinkers. As they set Beauvoir's work into dialogue with
Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Foucault, Levinas, and others, these essays
consider questions such as Beauvoir's philosophical relationship with Sartre; her
ethic of the erotic; her views on marriage, motherhood, and female friendship; and
her interpretations of oppression and liberation. This book discusses the full range
of Beauvoir's work, including The Second Sex, her unpublished diaries,
autobiographical writings, novels, and philosophical essays, and broadens the scope
and interpretive context of her unique philosophy. 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.
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“The Useless Mouths” and Other Literary Writings
\"The Useless Mouths\" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in 1986, such as the 1965 short novel \"Misunderstanding in Moscow,\" involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the fragmentary \"Notes for a Novel,\" which contains the seed of what she later would call \"the problem of the Other,\" and a lecture on postwar French theater titled Existentialist Theater. The collection notably includes the eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, \"What Can Literature Do?\" Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales, La Bâtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars. Contributors are Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff
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Beauvoir's Long March
In a strategic retreat from the failed radicalism of The Second Sex, Beauvoir apparently drew on lessons from the Chinese Revolution in undertaking a \"long march\" of her own. Using her memoirs to rally support for social change would demand the sacrifice of the authenticity that she admired in Sade; but this strategy was successful. Fautrier writes that \"in the most unexpected manner, readers from the late 1950s to the early 1960s effectively appropriated the forms of life narrated in the memoirs: the open relationship, political commitment, life in the cafes ... Turning them into 'existential models/ they made these forms of life the 'supreme mode of existence.'\"20 Chaperon reports that Beauvoir, once a figure of ridicule, had, by 1964, become one of the most admired women in France. Here was the answer to the question that had obsessed me for years: Beauvoir lied about her work in philosophy because she wanted her memoirs to be as successful as Ba Jin's The Family in giving \"voice to the resentments and hopes of an entire generation.\" It had never occurred to mc that Beauvoir might have conceived of her memoirs as a form of political work in a relentlessly conservative era- That's why she put Zaza's story at the center while simplifying the story of her own life, idealizing her relationships to support a more conventional message of sexual freedom and equality, and erasing anything that could be used as ammunition by her political enemies.
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Margaret A. Simons, Rebel at Heart
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In this interview, Margaret A. Simons describes her path to philosophy and existentialism, her struggles in the male-dominated field in the 1960s and 1970s, and her political activism in the civil rights and women's liberation movements. She also discusses her encounters with Simone de Beauvoir and Beauvoir's refusal to own her philosophical originality, suggesting that Beauvoir may have adopted a more conventional narrative of a female intellectual to circumvent the public's resistance to her radical ideas in the 1950s.
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Beauvoir on the Lived Experience of Politics, Time, and Sex
These three fine articles provide innovative readings of a central element in Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical method: the description of lived experience. Reading the articles while editing Beauvoir's forthcoming Diary of a Philosophy Student: 1927–30, my initial interest was in noting how the descriptions are foreshadowed in the student diary. Only later did I realize with a shock that the articles help solve a mystery surrounding Beauvoir's diary: why so much of it is missing from her autobiography.
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Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir et Le Deuxième Sexe
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L' autrice analyse l' influence de Richard Wright sur la philosophie féministe de Simone de Beauvoir. Après avoir observé le virage théorique et philosophique que représente Le Deuxième Sexe dans la pensée de Beauvoir, elle en interroge les influences possibles. C' est chez Richard Wright que l' autrice trouve les racines de la pensée beauvoirienne de l' oppression des femmes, de l' engagement de l' écrivaine et du féminisme radical selon lequel les femmes doivent se constituer en groupe à part entière pour se libérer.
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Feminist Writings
By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a \"conversion to feminism\" after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.
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