Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment - Couverture souple

Whitmarsh, Anne

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521155304 ISBN 13 : 9780521155304

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Simone de Beauvoir, whose name is inextricably linked with that of Jean-Paul Sartre, became famous as a leader of the existentialist movement and as a member of a coterie of influential left-wing intellectuals in postwar France. Latterly, however, she was perhaps best known as a leading advocate of feminism. Originally published in 1981, this was the first full-scale study of Simone de Beauvoir. The focus is the key existentialist concept of commitment (engagement), which is central to her thought, and its translation into action. Thus, a good deal of the book is devoted to a biographical study, while the author examines commitment as embodied in Simone de Beauvoir's ethics, politics, writings, and feminism. Apart from considering the whole span of her life and work, the book is important in the way it draws on a number of press interviews and other direct statements rather than the literary work only.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0521155304
• ISBN 13: 9780521155304
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 228
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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