Simone de Beauvoir : a humanist thinker /

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...

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Other Authors: Pettersen, Tove, 1962-, Bjørsnøs, Annlaug., Simons, Margaret A.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill Rodopi. c2015.

Series: Value Inquiry Book Series 279.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287471.

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Beauvoir, Simone de, > 1908-1986 > Criticism and interpretation.
Beauvoir, Simone de, > 1908-1986.
Humanism in literature.
Existentialism in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Call Number: PQ2603.E362 Z8765 2015

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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.