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Political Writings (Hardcover, New)
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Political Writings (Hardcover, New)
Series: Beauvoir Series
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Political Writings offers an abundance of newly translated essays
by Simone de Beauvoir that demonstrate a heretofore unknown side of
her political philosophy. The writings in this volume range from
Beauvoir's surprising 1952 defense of the misogynistic
eighteenth-century pornographer, the Marquis de Sade, to a
co-written 1974 documentary film, transcribed here for the first
time, which draws on Beauvoir's analysis of how socioeconomic
privilege shapes the biological reality of aging. The volume traces
nearly three decades of Beauvoir's leftist political engagement,
from exposes of conditions in fascist Spain and Portugal in 1945
and hard-hitting attacks on right-wing French intellectuals in the
1950s, to the 1962 defense of an Algerian freedom fighter, Djamila
Boupacha, and a 1975 article arguing for what is now called the
"two-state solution" in Israel. Together these texts prefigure
Beauvoir's later feminist activism and provide a new interpretive
context for reading her multi-volume autobiography, while also
shedding new light on French intellectual history during the
turbulent era of decolonization.
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