Simone de Beauvoir : : a humanist thinker / / edited by Tove Pettersen, Annlaug Bjørsnøs ; with a guest foreword by Margaret A. Simons.
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 recep...
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| Superior document: | Value Inquiry Book Series, Volume 279 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Value inquiry book series ;
Volume 279. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (229 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes indexes. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Tove Pettersen and Annlaug Bjørsnøs
- Introduction / Tove Pettersen and Annlaug Bjørsnøs
- Making the Humanities Meaningful: Beauvoir’s Philosophy and Literature of the Appeal / Christine Daigle
- Existential Awakening in Simone de Beauvoir’s Les belles images / Louise Renée
- Interdisciplinarity in The Second Sex: Between Phenomenology and Psychoanalysis / Erika Ruonakoski
- Simone de Beauvoir as Mediator for Foreign Literature in Les Temps Modernes / Stève Bessac-Vaure
- Existential Humanism and Moral Freedom in Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics / Tove Pettersen
- Becoming-Ambiguous: Beauvoir, Deleuze, and the Future of the Humanities / Samantha Bankston
- Embodiment and Contemplation of Death: A Beauvoirian Analysis / Gwendolyn Dolske
- The Relevance of Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethic/Aesthetic Project to the Humanities / Juliana de Albuquerque Katz
- Representing Time: On the Experience of Temporality in The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir / Annlaug Bjørsnøs
- The Relevance of Woolf’s Orlando and Beauvoir’s Tous les hommes sont mortels / Barbara Klaw
- Works Cited / Tove Pettersen and Annlaug Bjørsnøs
- About the Authors / Tove Pettersen and Annlaug Bjørsnøs
- Name Index / Tove Pettersen and Annlaug Bjørsnøs
- Subject Index / Tove Pettersen and Annlaug Bjørsnøs.