How to Read Beauvoir

The How to Read series provides a context and an explanation that will facilitate and enrich your understanding of texts vital to the canon. These books use excerpts from the major texts to explain essential topics, such as Simone de Beauvoir's investigation of social existence and identity, gender, sexuality, and old age.

To what extent does our social existence determine who we are? What is the meaning of sexuality for human existence? What is the meaning of "old age"? What is a woman? And what, for that matter, is a man? Stella Sandford explores the philosophical basis of Beauvoir's 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 revisions of her own positions.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

"One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman."-Simone de Beauvoir

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Stella Sandford
• Con la collaborazione di: Simon Critchley (Editore)
• Editore: W. W. Norton & Company
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.01.2007
• EAN: 9780393329513
• ISBN: 978-0-393-32951-3
• Pagine: 130
• Dimensioni: 127 mm x 203 mm x 7 mm
• Peso: 149 g
• Serie: How to Read; How to Read
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica romanza