Simone de Beauvoir: a humanist thinker

by Bjørsnøs, Annlaug Pettersen, Tove Simons, Margaret A.

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Full title :Simone de Beauvoir : a humanist thinker / edited by Tove Pettersen, Annlaug Bjørsnøs ; with a guest foreword by Margaret A. Simons.

Summary

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 reception and influence of her works demonstrate the transformative potential of humanistic research. Organized around three topics, each chapter ascertains Beauvoir¿́¿s relation to the humanities and the humanist tradition. The first group focuses on Beauvoir¿́¿s interdisciplinary methodology and critical thinking, the second on her ethics of freedom and the construction of values. The last section explores how Beauvoir uses literature as a laboratory for developing her ideas on human interaction. The chapters can be studied as independent essays, or read together as a whole. Simone de Beauvoir¿́¿A Humanist Thinker reveals new and previously unexplored dimensions of Beauvoir¿́¿s work by exposing her as a significant and inspiring humanist thinker. This volume attests that Beauvoir¿́¿s works continue to offer conceptual tools and insights enabling readers to critically analyze their own situation. In today¿́¿s world, where religious fanaticism and totalitarian ideologies are gaining ground, humanist values and humanistic research are more important than ever.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2015

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Brill Rodopi
Place of Publication:Leiden, The Netherlands
Language:eng
Publication Date:2015

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 215 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9004294465, 9789004294462
oclc:ocn908324783
LC Classification:PQ2603.E362
Dewey Decimal:843.9

Part One: Critical Thinking And Methodology -- Christine Daigle / Making The Humanities Meaningful: Beauvoir's Philosophy And Literature Of The Appeal -- Louise Renee / Existential Awakening In Simone De Beauvoir's Les Belles Images -- Erika Ruonakoski / Interdisciplinarity In The Second Sex: Between Phenomenology And Psychoanalysis -- Steve Bessac-Vaure / Simone De Beauvoir As Mediator For Foreign Literature In Les Temps Modernes -- Part Two: Freedom, Dependence, And Ambiguity -- Tove Pettersen / Existential Humanism And Moral Freedom In Simone De Beauvoir's Ethics -- Samantha Bankston / Becoming-Ambiguous: Beauvoir, Deleuze, And The Future Of The Humanities -- Gwendolyn Dolske / Embodiment And Contemplation Of Death: A Beauvoirian Analysis -- Part Three: Literature As Laboratory -- Juliana De Albuquerque Katz / The Relevance Of Simone De Beauvoir's Ethic/Aesthetic Project To The Humanities -- Annlaug Bjorsnos / Representing Time: On The Experience Of Temporality In The Mandarins By Simone De Beauvoir -- Barbara Klaw / The Relevance Of Woolf's Orlando And Beauvoir's Tous Les Hommes Sont Mortels.

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