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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Tidd, Ursula
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- FR 9 BEA [2009]
- Description
- Following its publication in 1949, The Second Sex quickly became one of the fundamental works of feminist thought. In it, Simone de Beauvoir (1908–86) offered up a statement that has informed nearly all feminist and gender scholarship that has followed, “One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman.” And it is the woman Beauvoir became who continues to fascinate, fostering a legend of coffee-drinking Parisian intellectuals debating existentialism in smoky cafes along the Left Bank. Her personal and intellectual companions were one and the same—and as a result, her intimate relationships with Jean-Paul Sartre and Nelson Algren provide a captivating context to the development of her ideas. In this book about both the life and words of Beauvoir, Ursula Tidd illuminates the many facets of the feminist icon’s complex personality, including her relentless autobiographical drive, which led her to envision her life as a continuously unfolding narrative, her active involvement in twentieth-century political struggles, and how Beauvoir the woman has over the decades become Beauvoir the myth.
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- Yourgrau, Palle
- Publish Year
- 2011
- Shelfmark
- FR 9 WEI 2011 - B
- Description
- Simone Weil, French philosopher, political activist, and mystic, died in 1943 at a sanatorium in Kent, England, at the age of thirty-four. During her lifetime, Weil was a paradox of asceticism and reclusive introversion who also maintained a teaching career and an active participation in politics. This biography outlines Weil’s influential life and work and demonstrates how she tried to apply philosophy to everyday life.Weil excelled at philosophy, and her empathetic political conscience channeled itself into political engagement and activism on behalf of the working class. Yourgrau assesses Weil’s controversial critique of Judaism as well as her radical re-imagination of Christianity, following a powerful religious experience in 1937, in light of Plato’s philosophy as a bridge between human suffering and divine perfection.
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Daniel, Lucy
- Publish Year
- 2009
- Shelfmark
- VS 9 STE 2009
- Thesaurus
- schrijvers, kunstenaressen, lesbisch, saloncultuur, biografie, Frankrijk, Verenigde Staten
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- Though American-born, Stein has been celebrated in many incarnations as the embodiment of French bohemia: she was a patron of modern art and writing, a gay icon, the coiner of the term “Lost Generation,” and the hostess of one of the most famous artistic salons. Welcomed into Stein’s art-covered living room were the likes of Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and Pound. With detailed reference to her writings, Stein’s own collected anecdotes, and even the many portraits painted of her, Lucy Daniel discusses how the legend of Gertrude Stein was created, both by herself and her admirers, and gives much-needed attention to the continuing significance and influence of Stein’s literary works.
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