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Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times S.)
Lisa Appignanesi
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Paperback. Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study "The Second Sex" made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement. Series: Life & Times. Num Pages: 182 pages, 21 black & white halftones, 1 tables. BIC Classification: 2ADF; BG; DSBH; DSK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 5. Weight in Grams: 296.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study The Second Sex made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement.
Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study The Second Sex made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement.
Product Details
Publisher
Haus Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Series
Life & Times
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781904950097
SKU
V9781904950097
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About Lisa Appignanesi
Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster. The author of Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love, Madness, Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present and, most recently, Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love, Lisa Appignanesi is a regular contributor to the New York Review ... Read more
Reviews for Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times S.)
What a lot Lisa Appignanesi has packed into such a slim volume. This is the ideal introduction to Simone de Beauvoir, capturing the woman, the philosopher, the lover, the public intellectual, and the fluidity between these roles. Appignanesi is brilliantly nuanced on the emotional costs of de Beauvoir's complicated `pact' with Sartre and on the way the philosophy emerged, hard-won, ... Read more