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How To Read Beauvoir

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title How To Read Beauvoir
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Stella Sandford
SeriesHow to Read
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:128
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 130
Category/GenreWestern philosophy from c 1900 to now
ISBN/Barcode 9781862078741
ClassificationsDewey:194
Audience
Undergraduate

Publishing Details

Publisher Granta Books
Imprint Granta Books
Publication Date 4 September 2006
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Stella Sandford explores the philosophical basis of Beauvoir is reflections on these and other questions, from her early moral period, through her post-war philosophical crisis, to the astounding polymathic studies of her mature thought. She demonstrates the persistence of the fundamental existential and ethical questions that drove Beauvoir's work and her constant revision of her own positions. With a central emphasis on Beauvoir's major work, The Second Sex, extracts are also taken from her first philosophical and political essays, as well as The Mandarins, Old Age and her essay on the Marquis de Sade.

Author Biography

Stella Sandford is Senior Lecturer in Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University and a member of the Radical Philosophy Editorial Collective. She is the author of The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas and a forthcoming book on Plato and sex.

Reviews

Beauvoir, like Sartre, is a founder of existentialism- the most popular philosophy of the modern day Renewed interest in this 'personality' philosopher with the recent publication of Hazel Rowley's Tete-a-Tete: The Lives and Loves of Simone Le Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre (read on BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week) Adding to 10 other titles currently available in the How to Read series