Simone De Beauvoir 1957 The Second Sex Feminist Philosophy Hardcover W/DJ
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Hardcover. 8vo. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, NY, 1957. 732 pgs. Fourth Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (light chip present to the crown of the DJ spine). Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have shelf-wear present to the extremities (titles are faded). No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. Simone de Beauvoir’s essential masterwork is a powerful analysis of the Western n...otion of “woman, ” and a revolutionary exploration of inequality and otherness. Vital and groundbreaking, Beauvoir’s pioneering and impressive text remains as pertinent today as when it was first published, and will continue to provoke and inspire generations of men and women to come. Simone de Beauvoir was born in Paris in 1908. In 1929 she became the youngest person ever to obtain the agrégation in philosophy at the Sorbonne, placing second to Jean-Paul Sartre. She taught at lycées at Marseille and Rouen from 1931 to 1937, and in Paris from 1938 to 1943. After the war, she emerged as one of the leaders of the existentialist movement, working with Sartre on Les Temps Modernes. The author of several books, including The Mandarins (1957), which was awarded the Prix Goncourt, Beauvoir was one of the most influential thinkers of her generation. She died in 1986. Simone de Beauvoir 1957 The Second Sex Feminist Philosophy Hardcover w/DJ
