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Political Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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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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University of Illinois Press

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0252097203

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9780252097201

The Works of Simone de Beauvoir

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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The Works of Simone de Beauvoir

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Some of the best of Simone de Brauvoir has been collected and compiled in this master book of her work. Included in this book is: Includes: The Ethics of Ambiguity, The Second Sex, On the publication of The Second Sex, interview Biography

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158

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CreateSpace

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1506193846

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9781506193847

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

By: Simone de Beauvoir

“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century Simone de Beauvoir's Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter offers an intimate picture of growing up in a bourgeois French family, rebelling as an adolescent against the conventional expectations of her class, and striking out on her own with an intellectual and existential ambition exceedingly rare in a young woman in the 1920s. Beauvoir vividly evokes her friendships, love interests, mentors, and the early days of the most important relationship of her life, with fellow student Jean-Paul Sartre, against the backdrop of a turbulent political time.

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336

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HarperCollins

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0062566172

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9780062566171

Hard Times

Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir)

By: de Beauvoir,Simone de Beauvoir

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Force of Circumstance, Volume II: 1952-1962 (The Autobiography of Simone de Beauvoir)

By: de Beauvoir,Simone de Beauvoir

A stellar adaptation by Charles Way, moving, thoughtful and wonderfully drawn." - What's On Stage

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384

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Da Capo Press

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1569249555

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9781569249550

The Second Sex

By: Simone De Beauvoir

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The Second Sex

By: Simone De Beauvoir

The essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —Vogue This unabridged edition reinstates significant portions of the original French text that were cut in the first English translation. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come.

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Vintage

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030781453X

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9780307814531

Wartime Diary

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Wartime Diary

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scandalous texts that threaten to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir’s life and work. Beauvoir’s account of her clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenges the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, just as her account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when Sartre’s philosophy in Being and Nothingness was barely begun calls into question the traditional view of Beauvoir’s novel as merely illustrating Sartre’s philosophy. Most important, the Wartime Diary provides an exciting account of Beauvoir’s philosophical transformation from the prewar solipsism of She Came to Stay to the postwar political engagement of The Second Sex. This edition also features previously unpublished material, including her musings about consciousness and order, recommended reading lists, and notes on labor unions. In providing new insights into Beauvoir’s philosophical development, the Wartime Diary promises to rewrite a crucial chapter of Western philosophy and intellectual history.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252033779

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9780252033773

Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 1, 1926-27

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 1, 1926-27

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Revelatory insights into the early life and thought of the preeminent French feminist philosopher Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and literary works. Presented here for the first time in translation and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical and literary significance. The volume represents an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and influence on the world.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252031423

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9780252031427

Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 2, 1928-29

By: Simone Beauvoir

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Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 2, 1928-29

By: Simone Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir, still a teen, began a diary while a philosophy student at the Sorbonne. Written in 1926-27—before Beauvoir met Jean-Paul Sartre—the diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and times and offer critical insights into her early intellectual interests, philosophy, and literary works. Presented for the first time in translation, this fully annotated first volume of the Diary includes essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. It remains an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and her influence on philosophy, feminism, and the world.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252051386

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9780252051388

La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

La más celebrada obra de la escritora francesa, esta historia de un triángulo amoroso entre dos adultos y una jovencita pone al descubierto las más oscuras ambigüedades de la moral al uso. En esta impactante novela ya aparecen los grandes temas de la obra de Beauvoir: la libertad, la acción y la libertad individual

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8435015629

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9788435015622

The Prime of Life

By: Peter Green,Simone de Beauvoir

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The Prime of Life

By: Peter Green,Simone de Beauvoir

The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figure First published in 1960, The Prime of Life offers an intimate, captivating picture of Simone de Beauvoir in her twenties, thirties and forties. Beginning as a recent graduate from the Sorbonne teaching high-school girls, we see de Beauvoir revel in the freedom her new financial independence brings. We see her and Jean-Paul Sartre recognise the powerful romantic and intellectual partnership they have found in one another, as they fall in love and define their own unconventional parameters. The Second World War comes, bringing austerity, violence and questions of the reality of freedom and individual responsibility into de Beauvoir’s life. As relevant and penetrating as when first published, The Prime of Life offers rare insight into a truly fascinating mind.

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659

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Random House

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1802069259

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9781802069259

Hard times, 1952-1962

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Hard times, 1952-1962

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Covering the years 1944 to 1952, this volume of the autobiography of legendary feminist and writer Simone de Beauvoir gives us not only an intimate account of her relationship with Sartre, but also a wonderful portrait of Parisian intellectual life. During this troubled period, French intellectuals grappled with the horrors of the Holocaust, the onset of the Cold War, and the beginning of colonial wars in Vietnam and Algeria. Beauvoir weaves memorable descriptions and anecdotes about leading members of the French postwar scene, including Genet, Camus, Richard Wright, Artaud, and Cocteau, with an account of her travels in Europe, Africa, and the United States. She also gives us an unforgettable chronicle of her romance with novelist Nelson Algren and of her struggle to live as an independent woman and writer.

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Paragon House Publishers

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1557785244

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Philosophical Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Philosophical Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and literary works. Presented here for the first time in translation and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. The volume represents an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir's independent thinking and influence on the world.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252029828

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9780252029820

Feminist Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Feminist Writings

By: Simone de Beauvoir

By turns surprising and revelatory, this sixth volume in the Beauvoir Series presents newly discovered writings and lectures while providing new translations and contexts for Simone de Beauvoir's more familiar writings. Spanning Beauvoir's career from the 1940s through 1986, the pieces explain the paradoxes in her political and feminist stances, including her famous 1972 announcement of a "conversion to feminism" after decades of activism on behalf of women. Feminist Writings documents and contextualizes Beauvoir's thinking, writing, public statements, and activities in the services of causes like French divorce law reform and the rights of women in the Iranian Revolution. In addition, the volume provides new insights into Beauvoir's complex thinking and illuminates her historic role in linking the movements for sexual freedom, sexual equality, homosexual rights, and women's rights in France.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252039009

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9780252039003

After the War

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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After the War

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Marlowe & Company

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1569249822

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La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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La invitada

By: Simone de Beauvoir

La más celebrada obra de la escritora, esta historia de un triángulo amoroso entre dos adultos y una jovencita pone al descubierto las más oscuras ambigüedades de la moral al uso.

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8435007014

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9788435007016

Letters to Sartre

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Letters to Sartre

By: Simone de Beauvoir

In these letters, de Beauvoir tells Sartre everything, tracing the extraordinary complications of their triangular love life; they reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent, but also as vulnerable, passionate, jealous, and...

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Skyhorse Publishing Inc.

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1611454980

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9781611454987

Todos los hombres son mortales

By: Simone de Beauvoir

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Todos los hombres son mortales

By: Simone de Beauvoir

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) ha pasado a la historia como una de las figuras del siglo xx más comprometidas con los problemas de la sociedad occidental. Militante activa en favor de la emancipación de la mujer, su obra es la apasionada búsqueda de una moral profundamente humana. Destacan en su obra La invitada, Las bellas imágenes, Todos los hombres son mortales, Ceremonia del adiós, La mujer rota...

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8435008517

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9788435008518

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