Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times) Lisa Appignanesi

Name: Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times) By Lisa Appignanesi
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Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times) by Lisa Appignanesi

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Summary

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986) always stood in the shadow of her lover and teacher, Jean-Paul Sartre, despite the fact that she was a brilliant writer and philosopher in her own right. Her monumental study "The Second Sex" made her a cult figure of the Feminist movement.

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Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times) by Lisa Appignanesi

Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times) Reviews

What a lot Lisa Appignanesi has packed into such a slim volume. This is the ideal introduction to Simone de Beauvoir, capturing the woman, the philosopher, the lover, the public intellectual, and the fluidity between these roles. Appignanesi is brilliantly nuanced on the emotional costs of de Beauvoir's complicated `pact' with Sartre and on the way the philosophy emerged, hard-won, out of the life. It's a book that's attentive to de Beauvoir's times and alive to her urgent relevance to ours. Dr Lara Feigel, Author of Free Woman, King's College, London.

About Lisa Appignanesi

Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster. The author of Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love, Madness, Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present and, most recently, Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love, Lisa Appignanesi is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

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GOR002167777

ISBN 13

9781904950097

ISBN 10

1904950094

Title

Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times) by Lisa Appignanesi

Author

Lisa Appignanesi

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Haus Publishing

Year published

2005-04-15

Number of pages

182

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N/A

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