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Simone de Beauvoir and the politics of ambiguity /
Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity is the first full-length study of Beauvoir's political thinking. Best known as the author of The Second Sex, Beauvoir also wrote an array of other political and philosophical texts that are less well known. Together, these constitute an original...
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2012.
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| Series: | Studies in feminist philosophy
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| Summary: | Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity is the first full-length study of Beauvoir's political thinking. Best known as the author of The Second Sex, Beauvoir also wrote an array of other political and philosophical texts that are less well known. Together, these constitute an original contribution to political theory and philosophy. The book both locates Beauvoir in her own intellectual and political context and demonstrates her continuing significance.
For, in her unique voice, Beauvoir still speaks to a range of pressing theoretical and practical questions concerning politics. These include the political value and dangers of liberal humanism; how oppressed groups become complicit in their own oppression; how social identities are perpetuated; the
limits to rationalism and the place of emotions, such as the desire for revenge, in politics. In discussing Beauvoir's reflections on these and other matters the book puts her ideas into conversation with those of many contemporary thinkers, including feminist and race theorists, as well as with historical figures in the liberal, Hegelian, and Marxist traditions. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 203 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-194) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195381436 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780195381443 (hardcover : alk. paper) |