Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times)

Lisa Appignanesi is a novelist, writer and broadcaster. The author of Trials of Passion: Crimes in the Name of Love, Madness, Mad, Bad And Sad: A History of Women and the Mind Doctors from 1800 to the Present and, most recently, Everyday Madness: On Grief, Anger, Loss and Love, Lisa Appignanesi is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books.

Title: Simone de Beauvoir (Life & Times)

Author: Appignanesi, Lisa

ISBN: 9781904950097

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Publisher: Haus Publishing

Publication Date: 2005-04-15

Number of Pages: 182

Weight: 0.2995 kg

What a lot Lisa Appignanesi has packed into such a slim volume. This is the ideal introduction to Simone de Beauvoir, capturing the woman, the philosopher, the lover, the public intellectual, and the fluidity between these roles. Appignanesi is brilliantly nuanced on the emotional costs of de Beauvoir's complicated `pact' with Sartre and on the way the philosophy emerged, hard-won, out of the life. It's a book that's attentive to de Beauvoir's times and alive to her urgent relevance to ours. Dr Lara Feigel, Author of Free Woman, King's College, London.