The ethics of ambiguity
A leading French existentialist forces readers to face the absurdity of the human condition and then proceeds to develop a dialectic of ambiguity that will enable them not to master the chaos but to create with it.
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- Full title :The ethics of ambiguity / by Simone de Beauvoir ; translated from the French by Bernard Frechtman.
Summary
A leading French existentialist forces readers to face the absurdity of the human condition and then proceeds to develop a dialectic of ambiguity that will enable them not to master the chaos but to create with it.
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- Publication Date:©1976.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Kensington Pub. Co
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1976.
Notes
"A Citadel Press book."
Translation of: Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté.
Reprint. Previously published: New York : Philosophical Library, ©1976.
The Physical Object
- Description:159 pages : : portrait ; : 21 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780806501604, 080650160X
- oclc:ocm50609220
- LC Classification:BJ1063
- Dewey Decimal:170
Table of Contents
I: Ambiguity and freedom -- II: Personal freedom and others -- III: The positive aspect of ambiguity. The aesthetic attitude ; Freedom and liberation ; The antinomies of action ; The present and the future ; Ambiguity -- Conclusion.
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