Simone de Beauvoir : a humanist thinker /

This collection of humanist readings of Simone de Beauvoir¿́¿s work is a novel contribution to contemporary research on Beauvoir, and a defense of the importance of the humanities. It demonstrates the significance and value of humanistic research through the work of Beauvoir, and argues that the rec...

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Other Authors: Pettersen, Tove, Pettersen, Tove, 1962-, Bjørsnøs, Annlaug, Simons, Margaret A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi, [2015]
Series:Value inquiry book series ; v. 279.
Value inquiry book series. Studies in existentialism.
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Table of Contents:
  • Part One: Critical Thinking And Methodology
  • Christine Daigle / Making The Humanities Meaningful: Beauvoir's Philosophy And Literature Of The Appeal
  • Louise Renee / Existential Awakening In Simone De Beauvoir's Les Belles Images
  • Erika Ruonakoski / Interdisciplinarity In The Second Sex: Between Phenomenology And Psychoanalysis
  • Steve Bessac-Vaure / Simone De Beauvoir As Mediator For Foreign Literature In Les Temps Modernes
  • Part Two: Freedom, Dependence, And Ambiguity
  • Tove Pettersen / Existential Humanism And Moral Freedom In Simone De Beauvoir's Ethics
  • Samantha Bankston / Becoming-Ambiguous: Beauvoir, Deleuze, And The Future Of The Humanities
  • Gwendolyn Dolske / Embodiment And Contemplation Of Death: A Beauvoirian Analysis
  • Part Three: Literature As Laboratory
  • Juliana De Albuquerque Katz / The Relevance Of Simone De Beauvoir's Ethic/Aesthetic Project To The Humanities
  • Annlaug Bjorsnos / Representing Time: On The Experience Of Temporality In The Mandarins By Simone De Beauvoir
  • Barbara Klaw / The Relevance Of Woolf's Orlando And Beauvoir's Tous Les Hommes Sont Mortels.