Political Writings

Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of her political philosophy. 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.

About the author

Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) was a French existentialist philosopher who employed a literary-philosophical method in her works, including She Came to Stay (1943), Ethics of Ambiguity (1947), and The Second Sex (1949). Margaret A. Simons is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and the author of Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism.Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, adopted daughter and literary executor of Simone de Beauvoir, is the editor of Lettres à Sartre and many other works by Beauvoir. Marybeth Timmermann is a contributing translator and editor of Beauvoir's Philosophical Writings and "The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings.

Product details

• Authors: Simone de Beauvoir
• Assisted by: Margaret A Simons (Editor), Margaret A. Simons (Editor), Marybeth Timmermann (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9780252085949
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08594-9
• No. of pages: 408
• Series: Beauvoir Series; Beauvoir
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies