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Title: The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone De Beauvoir, Somone De Beauvior ISBN: 0-8065-0160-X Publisher: Citadel Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.14 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Teaching Text for Existentialism
Comment: This is an excellent and original work of philosophy, closely related to the contemporary ideas of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but quite unique and not reducible to their work. I find it to be one of the best books (indeed one of the few books) to use to teach existentialism in introductory classes. I recommend skipping the first chapter, because it is self-consciously "literary," (in an obscure way), and contributes nothing essential to the book. Chapter 2 is the core of the book, and it is an incredible and compelling piece of writing that brilliantly discusses the distinctive nature of childhood experience, and then develops a dialectic of "bad faith" that offers a sort of system for understanding personality types--ways, that is, of embracing (imperfectly) our freedom. The third chapter studies politics in a very thoughtful way, (though I find it is often lost on my intro students because they just don't have enough experience of political realities to appreciate the significance of what she is saying). This text is often wrongly belittled by commentators (and, indeed, de Beauvoir herself wrongly said disparaging things about it), but I think it is one of the classic texts of existential phenomenology and deserves to be widely read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Great Teaching Text for Existentialism.
Comment: This is an excellent and original work of philosophy, closely related to the contemporary ideas of Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, but quite unique and not reducible to their work. I find it to be one of the best books (indeed one of the few books) to use to teach existentialism in introductory classes. I recommend skipping the first chapter, because it is self-consciously "literary," (in an obscure way), and contributes nothing essential to the book. Chapter 2 is the core of the book, and it is an incredible and compelling piece of writing that brilliantly discusses the distinctive nature of childhood experience, and then develops a dialectic of "bad faith" that offers a sort of system for understanding personality types--ways, that is, of embracing (imperfectly) our freedom. The third chapter studies politics in a very thoughtful way, (though I find it is often lost on my intro students because they just don't have enough experience of political realities to appreciate the significance of what she is saying). This text is often wrongly belittled by commentators (and, indeed, de Beauvoir herself wrongly said disparaging things about it), but I think it is one of the classic texts of existential phenomenology and deserves to be widely read.
Rating: 5
Summary: Concise Existential Account
Comment: By exploring the meaning of "existence before essence" and the fundamental reality of choice, Beauvoir presents the reader with a livable program for life in the modern and multiplicit world; namely existentialism. Ethics is both concise and poetic, maintaining a clarity that Being and Nothingness lacks. The Second Sex is essentially an entailment of the ideas explored in this book. Few other philosophers of the 20th century were able to combine practical philosophy and rigorous metaphysics with such eloquence.
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Title: The Second Sex by Simone De Beauvoir, H.M. Parshley ISBN: 0679724516 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: All Men Are Mortal by Simone De Beauvoir, Leonard M. Friedman ISBN: 0393308456 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 May, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology by Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel E. Barnes ISBN: 0671867806 Publisher: Washington Square Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 1993 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays by Albert Camus, Justin O'Brien ISBN: 0679733736 Publisher: Vintage Books USA Pub. Date: 01 May, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir ISBN: 0393318834 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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