Political Writings (Beauvoir Series) - Hardcover

Beauvoir, Simone De

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0252036948 ISBN 13: 9780252036941

Publisher: University of Illinois Press, 2012

Synopsis

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. 

About this title

Book Description:

 New translations illustrate Beauvoir's political activism

About the Author:

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 a 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

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0252036948
• ISBN 13: 9780252036941
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408
• Editor: Simons Margaret A., Timmermann Marybeth