Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

Jo-Ann Pilardi

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography
Format
Paperback
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Country
United States
Published
30 January 1999
Pages
152
ISBN
9780275963347

Simone de Beauvoir Writing the Self: Philosophy Becomes Autobiography

Jo-Ann Pilardi

The development of Simone de Beauvoir’s notion of self in both her philosophical and autobiographical writings is analyzed in this volume. Two ideas of the self are isolated: the existential notion of the self and the gendered self , which she developed in The Second Sex , and which represents a major departure from existential philosophy. Beginning with a study of her early esays, the author proceeds to discuss Beauvoir’s major philosophical works and her autobiographical writings where three personae emerge - the child, the woman in love, and the writer. This analysis highlights the innovative quality of Beauvoir’s thought. It also shows that writing an autobiography can be a philosophically inventive enterprise and one in which Beauvoir created her most profound analysis of the self.

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