Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography by Pilardi, Jo-Ann

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780275963347)

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Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography by Pilardi, Jo-Ann

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

$35.00
Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography by Pilardi, Jo-Ann

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

$35.00
Format: Paperback
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The development of Simone de Beauvoir's notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self are isolated: the existential notion of the self and the gendered self, which she developed in The Second Sex, and which represents a major departure from existential philosophy. Beginning with a study of her early essays, the author proceeds to discuss Beauvoir's major philosophical works and her autobiographical writings where three personae emerge--the child, the woman in love, and the writer. This analysis highlights the innovative quality of Beauvoir's thought. It also shows that writing an autobiography can be a philosophically inventive enterprise and one in which Beauvoir created her most profound analysis of the self.

Author: Jo-Ann Pilardi
ISBN-10: 0275963349
ISBN-13: 9780275963347
Publisher: Praeger
Language: English
Published: 01/30/1999
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.55lbs
Size: 9.34h x 6.36w x 0.45d
By Jo-Ann Pilardi
By Jo-Ann Pilardi
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JO-ANN PILARDI is Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Towson University in Maryland, where she is also Director of Women's Studies. Her main areas of expertise are feminist philosophy, phenomenology and existentialism, postmodernism, and social and political philosophy.

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