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Wartime Diary (Paperback)
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Wartime Diary (Paperback)
Series: Beauvoir Series
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Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal
development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January
1941, Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime Diary gives English readers
unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn
traditional views of Beauvoir's life and work. Beauvoir's
clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with
various young women challenge the conventional picture of Beauvoir
as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre. At the same time, her
account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when
Sartre had just begun Being and Nothingness questions the
traditional view of Beauvoir's novel as merely illustrating
Sartre's philosophy. Wartime Diary also traces Beauvoir's
philosophical transformation as she broke from the prewar solipsism
of She Came to Stay in favor of the postwar political engagement of
The Second Sex. Beauvoir's emerging existentialist ethics reflect
the dramatic collective experiences of refugees fleeing German
invasion and life under Nazi occupation. The evolution of her
thought also reveals the courageous reaffirmation of her
individuality in constructing a humanist ethics of freedom and
solidarity. This edition also features previously unpublished
material, including her musings about consciousness and order,
recommended reading lists, and notes on labor unions. In providing
new insights into Beauvoir's philosophical development, the Wartime
Diary promises to rewrite a crucial chapter of Western philosophy
and intellectual history.
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