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Simone de Beauvoir, Marybeth Timmerman, Margaret A. Simons (editor) University of Illinois Press, The Beauvoir series, Urbana, Illinois, 2012
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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.|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...
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Selections
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Simone de Beauvoir; edited by Margaret A. Simons and Marybeth Timmermann; foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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Simone de Beauvoir; Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir; Margaret A. Simons; Marybeth Timmermann
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University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2012
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United States, United States of America
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1st, First Edition, PT, 2012
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement, from exposes 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. Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization."--Publisher description
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Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. 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. Together these texts prefigure Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also shedding new light on French intellectual history during the turbulent era of decolonization.
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This work collects political essays written over the course of 30 years by French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986). The essays highlight her leftist political leanings, with some dating from before her writings on existentialist ethics and before her classic feminist work, "The Second Sex." Each essay is introduced by a different contributor in philosophy, French, or English. The first chapter offers a group of shorter essays of political reporting from Spain, Portugal, and the US. The rest of the book consists of chapter-length essays. Two of the essays in the collection are translated for the first time: a 1947 article written for an American newspaper, anda transcription of a 1974 documentary film on the treatment of the elderly, written and produced by Simone de Beauvoir in collaboration with others. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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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.
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2021-12-27
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