Simone de Beauvoir

Edward Fullbrook is a freelance writer. Kate Fullbrook is Professor of Literary Studies at the University of the West of England, Bristol. They are authors of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre: The Remaking of a Twentieth-Century Legend and many essays on Simone de Beauvoir.

• Introduction. 1. The Education of a Philosopher.2. Writing for her Life.3. Literature and Philosophy.4. Narrative Selves.5. Embodiment and Intersubjectivity.6. The Ethics of Liberation.7. Applied Ethics I: The Second Sex.8. Applied Ethics II: Les Belles Images, The Woman Destroyed, and Old Age.Notes.Glossary.The Works of Simone de Beauvoir.Index.

"This book is a clearly-written and tightly-organized addition to the growing scholarly interest in Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy. Kate and Edward Fullbrook provide an overview of Beauvoir's philosophical sources and an outline of her original starting point in ethics. Highlighting Beauvoir's emphasis on embodiment and intersubjectivity, they argue strongly for Beauvoir's place in current, popular ethical discussions." Eleanore Holveck, Duquesne University, Pittsburgh "This is certainly a book that needed to be written and the authors make an excellent job of it. The book can be highly recommended." Dr Elizabeth Fallaize, St. John's College, Oxford "A good working introduction to de Beauvoir's thought." Times Literary Supplement "A concise and unified picture of Beauvoir as philosopher." Women's Philosophy Review