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from: Oxford University Press, USA
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 843.912
EAN: 9780199265367
ISBN: 0199265364
Label: Oxford University Press, USA
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: April 13, 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Sales Rank: 1420635
Studio: Oxford University Press, USA
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This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir's thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of her most influential book, The Second Sex. A team of distinguished philosophers and literary critics locate her work in the intellectual and political upheavals that marked Paris in the 1930s and 1940s; analyze her philosophical links to 17th century rationalism, and to Kant, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Simone Weil, and Heidegger; and study the connections between her philosophical and literary writings. Above all, the collection tackles the relationship between theory and concrete situation with fresh insight and renewed urgency.
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Rating:  - Academic
This is a collection of essays written by academics for academics. As a lay person, I would like to see each of these re-written in a more accessible form.
I did come away with two understandings. One is the place and time of SDB, how the prewar, war and post-war environment of France shaped her and how she shaped her ideas from the time. The other is the problem of the English translation of the 2nd sex.
One essay is devoted to the problems of the translation, ... Read More
Rating:  - terribly uneven, often inexpert
This book, like many such collections (especially those that bring together papers from a conference), is tremendously uneven in quality. There are a few good essays here--and they are by persons who have written illuminating and substantial pieces in the past. And then there are a lot of weak essays here--pieces which do not get de Beauvoir right or which attempt without success to advance certain themes that are supposed present in her work. The volume's introduction is especially flawed in this ... Read More
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