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AvSimone de Beauvoir

Storpocket, Svenska, 2024

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Simone de Beauvoirs sakliga, tankeväckande och roliga uppgörelse med manssamhällets alla myter om kvinnan utkom 1949. Idag har hennes bok om kampen för kvinnans frigörelse och likaberättigande blivit en efterfrågad klassiker, en ständig inspirationskälla för den moderna feminismen och för alla som reflekterar över frågor om kön och könsskillnaderDenna utgåva presenterar den oavkortade texten på svenska. Den nya, fullständiga översättningen är frukten av ett intensivt samarbete mellan översättarna Adam Inczèdy-Gombos och Åsa Moberg och fackgranskaren Eva Gothlin, internationellt erkänd expert på Beauvoirs tankevärld, som också skrivit ett belysande förord.

För en tvetydighetens moral

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Svenska, 2018

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För en tvetydighetens moral, som nu återutges på svenska, skrevs innan författaren och filosofen Simone de Beauvoir hade blivit känd som feminist och speglar det intresse för moralfrågor och etik hon hade haft ända sedan sin studietid. Boken, som kom ut 1947, har också en viktig klangbotten i erfarenheter från ockupationstidens Frankrike, då moraliska problem ofta ställdes på sin spets och frågor som ”Har man ett personligt ansvar för att engagera sig mot nazismen?” och ”Är det rätt att riskera flera människors liv för att rädda ett enda?” blev högst påträngande.

Avled stilla

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Inbunden, Svenska, 2025

236 kr

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"Detta är kanske den mest gripande bok jag läst"Kristoffer Leandoer

I Avled stilla skildrar Simone de Beauvoir sin mammas död i cancer. Detaljerat beskriver hon hur sjukdomen dag för dag försvagar och förvandlar den livsbejakande kvinnan till en hjälplös och förnedrad spillra av sitt forna jag. De Beauvoir berättar rakt och osentimentalt om den komplicerade relationen till mamman, med vars borgerliga livssyn hon hade så lite gemensamt. Det är en berättelse full av moraliska frågeställningar: Gjorde döttrarna rätt i att förtiga mammans tillstånd för henne? Var det rätt att låta läkarna operera henne trots att det bara resulterade i en utdragen och plågsam dödskamp?

Avled stilla gavs ut första gången 1964 och utges nu med ett nyskrivet förord av Kristoffer Leandoer.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908 1986) är en av 1900- talets viktigaste författare och tänkare, mest känd för den feministiska klassikern Det andra könet (1950). 1954 tilldelades hon Goncourpriset för Mandarinerna.

Mandarins

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 1999

209 kr

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In her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around her — Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Arthur Koestler, Nelson Algren — de Beauvoir dissects the emotional and philosophical currents of her time. At once an engrossing drama and an intriguing political tale, The Mandarins is the emotional odyssey of a woman torn between her inner desires and her public life. "Much more than a roman à clef . . . a moving and engrossing novel." — New York Times

Woman Destroyed

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

129 kr

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First published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability – in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and, in the third, to the growing indifference of a loved one.THE WOMAN DESTROYED is a collection of three stories, each an exquisite and passionate study of a woman trapped by circumstances, trying to rebuild her life.In the first story, ‘The Age of Discretion’, a successful scholar fast approaching middle age faces a double shock – her son’s abandonment of the career she has chosen for him and the harsh critical rejection of her latest academic work. ‘The Monologue’ is an extraordinary New Year’s Eve outpouring of invective from a woman consumed with bitterness and loneliness after her son and her husband have left home. Finally, in ‘The Woman Destroyed’, Simone de Beauvoir tells the story of Monique, trying desperately to resurrect her life after her husband confesses to an affair with a younger woman.Compassionate, lucid, full of wit and knowing, Simone de Beauvoir’s rare insight into the inequalities and complexities of women’s lives is unsurpassable.

Introduktion till en tvetydighetens moral och andra texter

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Inbunden, Svenska, 2019

229 kr

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»Simone de Beauvoir lyckas ge större perspektiv. Hon gör dig till en modigare läsare. Denna essäsamling är ett incitament att använda, när dumheten kämpar sig fram till större utrymme och större betydelse.« | Björn Kohlström, Bernur

Introduktion till en tvetydighetens moral och andra texter är essäer skrivna mellan 1944 och 1959, som visar grunden av Simone de Beauvoirs tänkande. Här utforskas allt från Brigitte Bardot som ett provokativt löfte om kvinnlig frigörelse, till hur Marquis de Sade förvånande nog kan kallas moralist, samt grundläggande etiska frågor om människors handlande och ansvar. Allting genomkorsas av temat tvetydighet: hur den mänskliga existensen kännetecknas av en dubbelhet som inte går att avläsa i termer av motsatser. Till en fenomenologisk tradition som tidigare varit betydligt mera ren, teoretisk, språkorienterad, förde Simone de Beauvoir in etiska och politiska frågor. På olika sätt, genom olika perspektiv, visar dessa essäer, varför hon hör till de senaste hundra årens viktigaste tänkare. I svensk översättning och med efterord av Anna Petronella Fredlund.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR [1908-1986] var en fransk författare, filosof, feminist, samhällsteoretiker och politisk aktivist. Mest berömd av hennes böcker är Det andra könet [Le Deuxième Sexe, 1949], en av feminismens och genusteorins centrala klassiker, från vilken följande citat kommer: »man föds inte till kvinna, man blir det«. Till hennes viktiga verk hör även romanen Mandarinerna [1954], men det är främst i essäformen som de Beauvoir praktiserade sin feministiska etik och fenomenologi.

»De nio essäerna visar både på spännvidden och konsekvensen i Simone de Beauvoirs tänkande. En stor filosof har blivit mera tillgänglig, och moralen har skänkts en smula mer tvetydighet.« | Elisabeth Hjort, Svenska Dagbladet

»Det är en särskild njutning att vistas i Simone de Beauvoirs sällskap.« | Salka Hallström Bornold, Expressen

»När jag läser Simone de Beauvoirs essäer, många skrivna efter andra världskriget, slås jag av hur storslagen existentialismen var som filosofi, och vilka höga krav den ställde på människan: hon var tvungen att handla, välja, och i varje val ta ansvar för hur det skulle bli om alla andra valde samma sak. Detta anspråk saknar jag i dagens intellektuella samtal.« | Kajsa Ekis Ekman, Dagens Nyheter

»Det finns en respektingivande kompromisslöshet hos filosofen Simone de Beauvoir, som i och med denna utgåva ges en mer sammansatt bild på svenska. Det är stimulerande läsning.« | Maria Store, Borås Tidning

What Is Existentialism?

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

93 kr

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'It is possible for man to snatch the world from the darkness of absurdity'How should we think and act in the world? These writings on the human condition by one of the twentieth century's great philosophers explore the absurdity of our notions of good and evil, and show instead how we make our own destiny simply by being.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

Second Sex

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

160 kr

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TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID'Everyone who cares about freedom and justice for women should read The Second Sex' GuardianSimone de Beauvoir famously wrote, 'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'. In this groundbreaking work of feminism she examines the limits of female freedom and explodes our deeply ingrained beliefs about femininity. Liberation, she argues, entails challenging traditional perceptions of the social relationship between the sexes and, crucially, in achieving economic independence.Drawing on sociology, anthropology and biology, The Second Sex is as important and relevant today as when it was first published in 1949.

The Woman Destroyed

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska

198 kr

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Second Sex (Vintage Feminism Short Edition)

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

93 kr

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Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short formWITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NATALIE HAYNESWhen this book was first published in 1949 it was to outrage and scandal. Never before had the case for female liberty been so forcefully and successfully argued. De Beauvoir’s belief that ‘One is not born, but rather becomes, woman’ switched on light bulbs in the heads of a generation of women and began a fight for greater equality and economic independence. These pages contain the key passages of the book that changed perceptions of women forever.TRANSLATED BY CONSTANCE BORDE AND SHEILA MALOVANY-CHEVALLIERANNOTATED AND INTRODUCED BY MARTINE REID

Second Sex

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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THE SECOND SEX is a hymn to human freedom and a classic of the existentialist movement. It also has claims to be the most important s ingle book in the history of feminism. In the forty years since its publication De Beauvoir's then revolutionary thesis - that the subordination of women is not a fact of nature but the product of social conditioning has become part of our everyday thinking.

De oskiljaktiga

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Pocket, Svenska, 2022

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De oskiljaktiga skildrar en passionerad vänskap mellan två rebelliska skolflickor. Den behärskade Sylvie (Simone de Beauvoir) blir omedelbart charmad av sin nya klasskamrat, den glada, intelligenta och vågade Andrée (Elisabeth "Zaza" Lacoin). Hon beundrar Andrée och gör allt för att bli vän med henne. Tillsammans växer de upp och befriar sig från samtidens kvävande konventioner och omgivningens förväntningar. De blir snart oskiljaktiga, tills den dag då Andrée går ett hemskt öde till mötes.

De oskiljaktiga ansågs alltför avslöjande och intim för att publiceras under författarens livstid. Den skrevs 1954, fem år efter utgivningen av Det andra könet. Manuskriptet återupptäcktes av Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Simones dotter, som även skrivit bokens förord. Berättelsen och bokens fotografier, anteckningar och brev gör publiceringen till en litterär händelse.

SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR (1908 1986) var en fransk Goncourtprisbelönt författare och filosof. Tillsammans med sin livskamrat Jean-Paul Sartre var hon en viktig företrädare för den franska existentialismen. Mest känd är hon för den feministiska klassikern Det andra könet.

"En otrolig bok som blandar intelligent och djup dialog, med verkliga brevväxlingar från Simone och Zaza." Hanna Bergström, Nöjesguiden

"Simone de Beauvoirs prosa - utmärkt översatt av Kristoffer Leandoer - är kristallklar. Analysen av de sociala relationerna likaså [...] en idéroman och en uppväxtskildring, kan man tänka sig något bättre?" Jenny Högström, Sydsvenskan

"Fängslande om en tid som känns både långt borta och nära." Eva Åström, Expressen Söndag

"Det är en välskriven och lättläst roman som sätter blickfånget på hur svårt det är att bryta sig loss från familjens-, samhällets-, den förhärskande religionens normer, vilket många kvinnor även idag brottas med." Maria Eriksson, Norran

"Kristoffer Leandoer har gjort en fläckfri översättning med ett återhållet och precist språkbruk [...] vackert tillskott till ett författarskap som är ständigt aktuellt" Maria Ramnehill, Hallands Nyheter

"en alldeles underbart skriven bok. Om någon har missat att de Beauvoir inte bara var en briljant filosof utan även en av 1900-talets viktigaste romanförfattare så är De oskiljaktiga en tänkbar ingång." Rasmus Landström, Dagens ETC

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2001

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A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century, 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. Simone de Beavoir describes her early life, from her birth in Paris in 1908 to her student days at the Sorbonne, where she met Jean-Paul sartre - 'the dream-companion I had longed for since I was fifteen'.

Very Easy Death

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Long considered one of Simone de Beauvoir’s masterpieces, A Very Easy Death is a profoundly affecting, day-by-day recounting of her mother’s final days after she is hospitalized following a fall. Though a devout Catholic, her faith is subsumed by her terror of death, and as her body fails, she clings to life with fierce, primal desperation. In depicting her mother’s refusal to ‘go gentle’ while her autonomy and dignity are taken from her, Simone de Beauvoir ‘shows the power of compassion when it is allied with acute intelligence’ (Sunday Telegraph). Powerful, touching and sometimes shocking, this is an end-of-life account that no reader is likely to forget.

En familjeflickas memoarer

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Inbunden, Svenska, 2016

259 kr

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»Med stålhänder i sidenhandskar bearbetar hon sitt förflutna tills det bildar en nästan rät linje, hela vägen från Jesusbarn till filosof. Prosan är ofta lyrisk, oftare analytisk, alltid klar och kontrollerad.« Martina Lowden, P1 Kulturnytt »Det är slående hur många dagsaktuella teman som dyker upp i En familjeflickas memoarer. Simone de Beauvoir redovisar självskadebeteenden, självmordstankar och en monumental självupptagenhet. Den senare inbegriper drömmen om berömmelse: när en väninnas album krävde svar på frågan om framtidsplaner skrev hon: Bli en berömd författare. Många andra frågor hade väckt tvekan, inte denna: det var den framtid jag åtrådde, den och ingen annan .« Ur Åsa Mobergs förord till boken Simone de Beauvoirs självbiografiska essä En familjeflickas memoarer berättar med intimitet och stor klarhet om hennes uppväxt i en borgerlig fransk familj i början av förra seklet. Om hur de Beauvoir revolterade mot familjens och samhällets förväntningar på henne, genom att gå sin egen väg med intellektuella och existentiella ambitioner som var socialt otänkbara för en ung kvinna på den tiden.Det här är den viktiga första delen i de Beauvoirs klassiska memoarverk. I svensk översättning av Eva Alexandersson och med ett nyskrivet förord av författaren och kritikern Åsa Moberg. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR [1908 -1986] var en fransk filosof, feminist, samhällsteoretiker och politisk aktivist. Memoarverket - ur vilket En familjeflickas memoarer [1958] är den första delen - är den biografiska pendangen till det stora verket Det andra könet [1949], om att vara flicka och kvinna på 1900-talet.

Mandarins

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

205 kr

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A Harper Perennial Modern Classics reissue of this unflinching examination of post-war French intellectual life, and an amazing chronicle of love, philosophy and politics from one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century.An epic romance, a philosophical argument and an honest and searing portrayal of what it means to be a woman, this is Simone de Beauvoir’s most famous and profound novel. De Beauvoir sketches the volatile intellectual and political climate of post-war France with amazing deftness and insight, peopling her story with fictionalisations of the most important figures of the era, such as Camus, Sartre and Nelson Algren. Her novel examines the painful split between public and private life that characterised the female experience in the mid-20th century, and addresses the most difficult questions of gender and choice.It is an astonishing work of intellectual athleticism, yet also a moving romance, a love story of passion and depth. Long out of print, this masterpiece is now reissued as part of the Harper Perennial Modern Classics series so that a whole new generation can discover de Beauvoir’s magic.

She Came to Stay

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2006

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Written as an act of revenge against the 17 year-old who came between her and Jean-Paul Sartre, She Came to Stay is Simone de Beauvoir’s first novel – a lacerating study of a young, naive couple in love and the usurping woman who comes between them.‘It is impossible to talk about faithfulness and unfaithfulness where we are oncerned. You and I are simply one. Neither of us can be described without the other.’It was unthinkable that Pierre and Francoise should ever tire of each other. And yet, both talented and restless, they constantly feel the need for new sensations, new people. Because of this they bring the young, beautiful and irresponsible Xavière into their life who, determined to take Pierre for herself, drives a wedge between them, with unforeseeable, disastrous consequences…Published in 1943, 'She Came to Stay' is Simone de Beauvoir's first novel. Written as an act of revenge against the woman who nearly destroyed her now legendary, unorthodox relationship with the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, it fictionalises the events of 1935, when Sartre became infatuated with seventeen-year old Olga Bost, a pupil and devotee of de Beauvoir's.Passionately eloquent, coolly and devastatingly ironic, 'She Came to Stay' is one of the most extraordinary and powerful pieces of fictional autobiography of the twentieth century, in which de Beauvoir's 'tears for her characters freeze as they drop.'

Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2005

247 kr

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Inseparable

A Never Before Published Novel

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

279 kr

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Inseparable

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

216 kr

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Second Sex

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

178 kr

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'One is not born, but rather becomes, woman'First published in Paris in 1949, The Second Sex by Simone de Beavoir was a groundbreaking, risqué book that became a runaway success. Selling 20,000 copies in its first week, the book earned its author both notoriety and admiration.Since then, The Second Sex has been translated into forty languages and has become a landmark in the history of feminism. Required reading for anyone who believes in the equality of the sexes, the central messages of The Second Sex are as important today as they were for the housewives of the forties.

Letters To Sartre

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 1993

168 kr

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In 1983 de Beauvoir published Sartre's letters, maintaining that her own to him had been lost. They were found by de Beauvoir's adopted daughter, and published to a storm of controversy in France. Tracing the emotional and triangular complications of her life with Sartre, the letters reveal her not only as manipulative and dependent but Simonealso as vulnerable, passionate, jealous and committed.

Blood of Others

AvSimone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

139 kr

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Potent and vividly emotional, Simone de Beauvoir’s captivating novel questions freedom and individual responsibility in the face of brutality‘These carefree faces, on which we allowed our smiles to spread, were for others the mask of tragedy.’Jean Blomart, patriot leader against the German forces of occupation, waits throughout an endless night for his wounded lover, Hélène, to die. Told through memories of his and her life, The Blood of Others paints an intense and moving picture of their love story and life in German occupied Paris during the Second World War. In the face of a seemingly unstoppable force, Hélène and Jean are confronted by the illusion of freedom and made to question their individual roles in the collective struggle against fascism, with devastating consequences.First published in 1945, this powerful novel resonates profoundly today and brings the ideas of one of the most important existentialist thinkers to life in spellbinding prose.With an Introduction by Ali Smith.

Prime of Life

AvPeter Green,Simone de Beauvoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

155 kr

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The second volume in Simone de Beauvoir’s celebrated autobiography recalls her formative years in Paris when she began to emerge as a public figureFirst 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.

Philosophical Writings

AvSimone de Beauvoir,Margaret A. Simons

Inbunden, Engelska, 2005

481 kr

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Despite growing interest in her philosophy, Simone de Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood. She is typically portrayed as a mere intellectual follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Beauvoir's philosophical work suffers from a lack of English-language translation or, worse, mistranslation into heavily condensed popular versions. Philosophical Writings provides an unprecedented collection of complete, scholarly editions of philosophical texts that cover the first twenty-three years of Beauvoir's career, including a number of recently discovered works. Ranging from metaphysical literature to 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. Revelatory and long overdue, Philosophical Writings adds to the ongoing resurgence of interest in Beauvoir's thought and to her growing influence on today's philosophical curriculum.

Diary of a Philosophy Student

Volume 1, 1926-27

AvSimone de Beauvoir,Barbara Klawm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2006

540 kr

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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.

Wartime Diary

AvSimone de Beauvoir,Margaret A. Simonsm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

511 kr

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Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartimeWritten from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir’s life and work.Beauvoir's clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenge the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. At the same time, her account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when Sartre had just begun Being and Nothingness questions the traditional view of Beauvoir’s novel as merely illustrating Sartre’s philosophy.Wartime Diary also traces Beauvoir's philosophical transformation as she broke from the prewar solipsism of She Came to Stay in favor of the postwar political engagement of The Second Sex. Beauvoir's emerging existentialist ethics reflect the dramatic collective experiences of refugees fleeing German invasion and life under Nazi occupation. The evolution of her thought also reveals the courageous reaffirmation of her individuality in constructing a humanist ethics of freedom and solidarity.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.

"the Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings

AvSimone de Beauvoir,Margaret A. Simonsm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2011

1 523 kr

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"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translation of the 1945 play The Useless Mouths, written in Paris during the Nazi occupation. Other pieces were discovered after Beauvoir's death in 1986, such as the 1965 short novel "Misunderstanding in Moscow," involving an elderly French couple who confront their fears of aging. Two additional previously unknown texts include the fragmentary "Notes for a Novel," which contains the seed of what she later would call "the problem of the Other," and a lecture on postwar French theater titled Existentialist Theater. The collection notably includes the eagerly awaited translation of Beauvoir's contribution to a 1965 debate among Jean-Paul Sartre and other French writers and intellectuals, "What Can Literature Do?"Prefaces to well-known works such as Bluebeard and Other Fairy Tales,La BÂtarde, and James Joyce in Paris: His Final Years are also available in English for the first time, alongside essays and other short articles. A landmark contribution to Beauvoir studies and French literary studies, the volume includes informative and engaging introductory essays by prominent and rising scholars.Contributors are Meryl Altman, Elizabeth Fallaize, Alison S. Fell, Sarah Gendron, Dennis A. Gilbert, Laura Hengehold, Eleanore Holveck, Terry Keefe, J. Debbie Mann, Frederick M. Morrison, Catherine Naji, Justine Sarrot, Liz Stanley, Ursula Tidd, and Veronique Zaytzeff.

Political Writings

AvSimone de Beauvoir,Margaret A. Simonsm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

481 kr

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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.

Feminist Writings

AvSimone de Beauvoir,Margaret A. Simonsm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 2015

553 kr

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The philosopher's writings on, and engagement with, twentieth century feminism 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.