Philosophical Writings

by Beauvoir, Simone de; Simons, Margaret A.; Timmermann, Marybeth; Mader, Mary Beth

• ISBN13: 9780252029820
• ISBN10: 0252029828
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-12-16
• Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr

Summary

This volume aims at nothing less than the transformation of Simone de Beauvoir's place in the philosophical canon. Despite growing interest her philosophy, Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood and is typically portrayed as a mere philosophical follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth. One factor contributing to misunderstanding has been the lack of English translations of much of Beauvoir's philosophical work, or worse--its mistranslation in heavily condensed, popular editions. Philosophical Writings addresses this source of misunderstanding by providing complete, scholarly editions of Beauvoir's philosophical texts covering the first twenty-three years of her work, including some only recently discovered. Ranging from metaphysical literature to essays on existentialist ethics, Philosophical Writings brings together diverse elements of Beauvoir's work while highlighting continuities in the development of her thought. Each of the translations features detailed notes and a scholarly introduction explaining its larger significance.Philosophical Writings is a major contribution to the renaissance of interest in her work, and to a philosophical curriculum in which women remain underrepresented.

Author Biography

Barbara Klaw is a professor of French at Northern Kentucky University.  She is the author of Le Paris de Simone de Beauvoir (Syllepse, 1999) and numerous articles in scholarly journals and books.

Table of Contents

Analysis of Claude Bernard's Introduction to the study of experimental medicine1924

Two unpublished chapters from She came to stay 1935-37

Pyrrhus and Cineas 1944

A review of Phenomenology of Perception by Merleau-Ponty 1945

Moral idealisme and political realism 1945

Existentialism and popular wisdom 1945

Jean-Paul Sartre 1945

An eye for an eye 1946

Literature and metaphysics 1946

Introduction to an ethics of ambiguity 1946

An existentialist looks at Americans 1947

What is existentialism? 1947

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