Dr Kate Kirkpatrick (UK University of Oxford)

Becoming Beauvoir

A Life

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first biography of Simone de Beauvoir since publication of her letters and early diaries, and the newly published letters to her lover Claude Lanzmann, which sheds new light on her relationship with Jean Paul Sartre

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 363138
• Seitenzahl: 496
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 717g
• ISBN-13: 9781350047174
• ISBN-10: 1350047171
• Artikelnr.: 49140377

Autorenporträt

Kate Kirkpatrick is Lecturer in Religion, Philosophy and Culture at King's College London, UK. She is the author of several books on Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir.

Inhaltsangabe

Abbreviations of Beauvoir's Works
Introduction: Simone de Beauvoir-Who's She?
1. Growing like a girl
2. The dutiful daughter
3. Lover of God or lover of men?
4. The love before the legend
5. The Valkyrie and the Playboy
6. Rooms of her own
7. The trio that was a quartet
8. War within, war without
9. Forgotten philosophy
10. Queen of existentialism
11. American dilemmas
12. The scandalous Second Sex
13. Putting a new face on love
14. Feeling gypped
15. Old age revealed
16. The dying of the light
17. Afterwords: What will become of Simone de Beauvoir?
Select Bibliography

Rezensionen

A book to be read slowly and savoured. There's too much detail to gulp it down. But it is worth the time it takes to read a fascinating portrait of a woman who inspired women around the world and who changed the way many people think. The Sunday Times