A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir

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<p><br /><b>Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title!</b><br /><br />The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of<i>The Second Sex</i> on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new<i>Companion</i>dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, and leading interpreters reflect upon the range of Beauvoirs contribution to philosophy as one of the great authors, thinkers, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century.</p><p>The<i>Companion</i>examines Beauvoirs rich intellectual life from a variety of anglesincluding literary, historical, and anthropological perspectivesand situates her in relation to her forbears and contemporaries in the philosophical canon. Essays in each of four thematic sections reveal the breadth and acuity of her insight, from the significance of<i>The Second Sex</i> and her work on the metaphysics of gender to her plentiful contributions in ethics and political philosophy. Later chapters trace the relationship between Beauvoirs philosophical and literary work and open up her scholarship to global issues, questions of race, and the legacy of colonialism and sexism. The volume concludes by considering her impact on contemporary feminist thought writ large, and features pioneering work from a new generation of Beauvoir scholars.</p><p>Ambitious and unprecedented in scope,<i>A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir</i>is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource for students, teachers, and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.</p>

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<p><b>Laura Hengehold</b> is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. A prolific author, her most recent book is<i>Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of</i> The Second Sex.</p><p><b>Nancy Bauer</b> is Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Dean of Academic Affairs for the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of<i>Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism.</i></p>

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