The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir.

Intro -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- PART I: Historical Context -- 1. Simone de Beauvoir: A Woman Philosopher in the Context of her Generation -- 2. Towards a Friendly, Transatlantic Critique of The Second Sex -- 3. While We Wait: Notes on the English Translation of The Second Sex -- PART II: Philosophical Context -- 4. Complicity and Slavery in The Second Sex -- 5. Simone de Beauvoir and Human Dignity -- 6. Must We Read Simone de Beauvoir? -- PART III: Literary Context -- 7. Meaning What We Say: The 'Politics of Theory' and the Responsibility of Intellectuals -- 8. Saying What We Mean -- 9. The House We Never Leave: Childhood, Shelter, and Freedom in the Writings of Beauvoir and Colette -- Select Bibliography -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

This collection of new essays treats the historical, philosophical, and literary dimensions of Simone de Beauvoir's thought, and celebrates the 50th anniversary of her most influential book, The Second Sex. A team of distinguished philosophers and literary critics locate her work in the intellectual and political upheavals that marked Paris in the 1930s and 1940s; analyse her philosophical links to 17th-century rationalism, and to Kant, Hegel, Merleau-Ponty, Sartre, Simone Weil, and Heidegger; and study the connections between her philosophical and literary writings. Above all, the collection tackles the relationship between theory and concrete situation with fresh insight and renewed urgency.

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