Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter

by Lori Jo Marso

In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Jo Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through Marso's notion of the encounter. Starting with Beauvoir's political encounters with several of her key contemporaries including Hannah Arendt, Robert Brasillach, Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon, and Violette Leduc, Marso also...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822369702
• ISBN13: 9780822369707
• Release Date: August 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"