Research Catalog

Title

Simone de Beauvoir : a critical introduction / Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook.

Author

Fullbrook, Edward.

Publication

Cambridge [England] ; Malden, MA : Polity Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fullbrook, Kate.

Description

x, 177 pages; 24 cm

Summary

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical thought. Beauvoir has long been recognized as the twentieth century's leading feminist writer, but the full extent of her significance as a philosopher is just coming into focus. This study examines the history of Beauvoir's development into one of the most original and influential thinkers of her era. The Fullbrooks begin with an account of Beauvoir's formation as a philosopher. They then explore her early writing on philosophical method and the ways this shaped her fiction. The book traces the development of Beauvoir's central theories of embodied consciousness and intersubjectivity, and examines her concepts of the "individual" and the "social other". An analysis of Beauvoir's ethics of liberation leads to philosophical readings of her great works of applied ethics, The Second Sex and Old Age. Finally, Beauvoir's contribution to continuing debates about consciousness, the body, the self and the other is reassessed. The publication of this introduction to Beauvoir's philosophy is an important contribution to the current renaissance of Beauvoir studies. Clear, accessible and lively, this book is essential reading not only for students of Beauvoir but for anyone interested in the submerged record of women's impact on philosophy. -- Back cover.

Series Statement

Key contemporary thinkers

Uniform Title

Key contemporary thinkers (Cambridge, England)

Subject

• Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
• Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986
• Beauvoir, Simone de 1908-1986
• Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 > Criticism and interpretation
• Beauvoir, Simone de
• 1900-1999
• Philosophy, French > 20th century
• Philosophers > France > 20th century > Biography
• Philosophers
• Philosophy, French
• Existentiefilosofie
• Le Deuxième Sexe (Beauvoir)
• France

Genre/Form

Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-164) and index.

Contents

1. The Education of a Philosopher -- 2. Writing for her Life -- 3. Literature and Philosophy. 'A New Dimension of Investigation'. All Men Are Mortal -- 4. Narrative Selves. The Philosophical Background of Existentialism. Consciousness as a Relation. Two Dimensions of Human Reality. The Theory of the Narrative Self. Bad Faith. The Philosophy of Joy -- 5. Embodiment and Intersubjectivity. She Came to Stay. The Body. Social Solipsism and Holistic Union. Subjects and Objects. The Internal Relation. The Blood of Others. Intersubjective Social Theory -- 6. The Ethics of Liberation. Introduction. The Origin of Value. The Structure of Freedom. Social Ethics -- 7. Applied Ethics I: The Second Sex. Introduction. The Second Sex. 8. Applied Ethics II: Les belles images, The woman destroyed, and Old age.

ISBN

• 0745612024
• 9780745612027
• 0745612032
• 9780745612034

LCCN

97038760

OCLC

• ocm37761877
• 37761877
• SCSB-349512

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library