Publication

1999 - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Lanham, Md, Maryland

Language

English

Word Count

65,750 words, Guess

Page Count

263 pages

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Number98037998
  • LibraryThing171763
  • Goodreads544981

Classifications

  • DDC305.42
  • LCCHQ1208 .S532 1999

Description

In this compelling chronicle, Margaret A. Simons details her search for the true origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy. She describes the pathbreaking discoveries she made in Beauvoir's handwritten diary from 1927, uncovers new evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon, reveals evidence that the African American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with the model of oppression she used in The Second Sex, and shows the influence of The Second Sex in transforming Sartre's philosophy.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Beauvoir and The second sex: feminism, race, and the origins of existentialismRowman & Littlefield Publishers1999-01-01

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