• Approachable introduction to Simone de Beauvoir for undergraduate students • Details how one of the biggest figures in 20th century philosophy is still relevant • Includes works by both established scholars in the field of de Beauvoir studies and newer figures • Deals with up-to-date topics that have arisen and (re)gained popularity in the past several years – particularly calls for decolonization and the rise of ‘Incels’.

• Approachable introduction to Simone de Beauvoir for undergraduate students • Details how one of the biggest figures in 20th century philosophy is still relevant • Includes works by both established scholars in the field of de Beauvoir studies and newer figures • Deals with up-to-date topics that have arisen and (re)gained popularity in the past several years – particularly calls for decolonization and the rise of ‘Incels’.

"Accessible, attractively written (and very well translated), Vintges's study is a convincing defence of de Beauvoir against some of the more common criticisms." Radical Philosophy

..". Vintges s meticulous textual analysis, logical clarity, and sweeping originality guarantee her book its enduring value. Indispensable for students of Beauvoir s philosophy and existentialism, Vintges s book will prove valuable as well in courses on ethics, postmodernism, and feminist theory." Ethics

..". a highly informative book." Teaching Philosophy

..". important... well worth reading." Library Journal

..". clearly written, comprehensive... will prove valuable as well in courses on ethics, postmodernism, and feminist theory." Ethics

"The book is essential reading for those interested in Beauvoir and in existentialism generally." Women s Philosophy Review

"The moral theory revealed offers ethical answers to some of today s most difficult issues." AAUW Outlook

Philosophy as Passion refutes the commonly held view of Simone de Beauvoir as no more than an acolyte of Jean-Paul Sartre. Karen Vintges delineates Beauvoir s independent, original ethics and philosophy, drawing on the moral-philosophical treatises of the 1940s and 50s, The Second Sex, The Mandarins, and her autobiographical works. Vintges shows that Beauvoir s unique notions added an ethical dimension to existentialist philosophy."

Feminism and the Final Foucault is the first systematic offering of contemporary, international feminist perspectives on the later work of philosopher Michel Foucault. Rather than simply debating the merits or limitations of Foucault's later work, the essays in this collection examine women's historical self-practices, conceive of feminism as a shared ethos, and consider the political significance of this conceptualization in order to elucidate, experiment with, and put into practice the conceptual "tools" that Foucault offers for feminist ethics and politics. The volume illustrates the ways in which Foucault's later thinking on ethics as "care of the self" can reintroduce a number of issues and themes that feminists jettisoned in the wake of postmodernism, including consciousness raising, feminist therapy, the subject woman, identity politics, and feminist agency. Taken as a whole, the diversity of feminist viewpoints presented provide important new insights into "the final Foucault," and thus serve as a productive intervention in current Foucault scholarship.