Sex and Philosophy: Rethinking de Beauvoir and Sartre

by Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook

Book Overview

From the author's introduction:

As the Sartre-Beauvoir story developed and became part of contemporary mythology, it was increasingly filtered through two presumptions regarding the nature of the partnership. One concerned sex, the other philosophy. The classic view of Beauvoir, encouraged by her own writing and by Sartre's acquiescence, has been one of Sartre as womanizer and Beauvoir as the patient, loyal female victim. The...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1847060668
• ISBN13: 9781847060662
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.3" x 7.7"