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Political Writings

ISBN-13: 9780252036941
Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
Imprint: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS
By Simone de Beauvoir, Edited by Margaret A. Simons, Edited by Marybeth Timmermann, Foreword by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir
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Local release date: 13/09/2012
Format: Hardback (229.00mm X 152.00mm) 384 pages Weight: 780g
Categories: Political science & theory [JPA]

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Google Preview: 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.; ''This unique contribution to Beauvoir scholarship displays the range and depth of her political activism and thought on behalf of women and the oppressed worldwide. This fantastic volume took my breath away and left me more than ever in awe of Beauvoir.''--Claudia Card, author of Confronting Evils: Terrorism, Torture, Genocide''This remarkable collection will be most surprising and provocative for thinkers yearning for a political philosophy to accompany Beauvoir's feminist and ethical philosophies. These essays, many of them appearing for the first time in English, make clear Beauvoir's turn away from abstract philosophical thought and toward political engagement.''--Kelly Oliver, author of Animal Lessons: How They Teach Us to Be Human; Google Preview content

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