{"product_id":"emancipatory-thinking-elaine-stavro-9780773553552","title":"Emancipatory Thinking: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Political Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost scholars have focused on The Second Sex and Simone de Beauvoir's fiction, concentrating on gender issues but ignoring her broader emancipatory vision. Though Beauvoir's political thinking is not as closely studied as her feminist works, it underpinned her activism and helped her navigate the dilemmas raised by revolutionary thought in the postwar period. In \u003ci\u003eEmancipatory Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e Elaine Stavro brings together Beauvoir's philosophy and her political interventions to produce complex ideas on emancipation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDrawing from a range of work, including novels, essays, autobiographical writings, and philosophic texts, Stavro explains that for Beauvoir freedom is a movement that requires both personal and collective transformation. Freedom is not guaranteed by world historical systems, material structures, wilful action, or discursive practices, but requires engaged subjects who are able to take creative risks as well as synchronize with existing forces to work towards collective change. Beauvoir, Stavro asserts, resisted the trend of anti-humanism that has dominated French thinking since the 1960s and also managed to avoid the pitfalls of voluntarism and individualism. In fact, Stavro argues, Beauvoir appreciated the impact of material, socio-economic, institutional forces, without forgoing the capacity to initiate. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eApplying Beauvoir's existential insights and understanding of embodied and situated subjectivity to recent debates within gender, literary, sociological, cultural, and political studies, \u003ci\u003eEmancipatory Thinking\u003c\/i\u003e provides a lens to explore the current political and theoretical landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Elaine Stavro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 077355355X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780773553552\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e McGill-Queen's University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/11\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2019","brand":"Elaine Stavro","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096714813695,"sku":"9780773553552","price":45.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/emancipatory-thinking-elaine-stavro-9780773553552","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}