Political Writings

by Simone de Beauvoir

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252036948
• ISBN13: 9780252036941
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"