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32Book review: Edward Fullbrook and Kate Fullbrook. Simone de beauvoir: A critical introduction. New York: Polity press/blackwell, 1998 (review)Hypatia 14 (4): 183-186. 1999.
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132Introduction to Beauvoir's "Analysis of Claude Bernard's Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine"In Margaret A. Simons, Marybeth Timmermann & Mary Beth Mader (eds.), Philosophical Writings, University of Illinois Press. pp. 15-22. 2004.In December 1924 when Simone de Beauvoir almost certainly wrote her essay analyzing Claude Bernard's "Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine," a classic text in the philosophy of science, she was a 16 yr old student in a senior-level philosophy class at a private Catholic girls' school. Given the popular conception of existentialism as anti science, Beauvoir's early interest in science, reflected in her baccalaureate successes as well as her paper on Bernard, may be surprising. But h…Read more
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46"The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings (edited book)University of Illinois Press. 2011.The Useless Mouths" and Other Literary Writings brings to English-language readers literary writings--several previously unknown--by Simone de Beauvoir. Culled from sources including various American university collections, the works span decades of Beauvoir's career. Ranging from dramatic works and literary theory to radio broadcasts, they collectively reveal fresh insights into Beauvoir's writing process, personal life, and the honing of her philosophy. The volume begins with a new translatio…Read more
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38Sexism and the Philosophical Canon: On Reading Beauvoir's «The Second Sex»Journal of the History of Ideas 51 (3): 487-504. 1990.
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289Beauvoir's philosophical independence in a dialogue with SartreJournal of Speculative Philosophy 14 (2): 87-103. 2000.
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62Two Interviews with Simone de BeauvoirHypatia 3 (3): 11-27. 1988.In these interviews from 1982 and 1985, I ask Beauvoir about her philosophical differences with Jean-Paul Sartre on the issues of voluntarism vs social conditioning and embodiment, individualism vs reciprocity, and ontology vs ethics. We also discuss her influence on Sartre's work, the problems with the current English translation of The Second Sex, her analyses of motherhood and feminist concepts of woman-identity, and her own experience of sexism.
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90The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Critical Essays (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2006.Since her death in 1986 and the publication of her letters and diaries in 1990, interest in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir has never been greater. In this engaging and timely volume, Margaret A. Simons and an international group of philosophers present 16 essays that reveal Beauvoir as one of the century’s most important and influential thinkers. As they set Beauvoir’s work into dialogue with Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Foucault, Levinas, and others, these essays consider questions …Read more
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198Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of ExistentialismRowman & Littlefield. 1999.In a compelling chronicle of her search to understand Beauvoir's philosophy in The Second Sex, Margaret A. Simons offers a unique perspective on Beauvoir's wide-ranging contribution to twentieth-century thought. She details the discovery of the origins of Beauvoir's existential philosophy in her handwritten diary from 1927; uncovers evidence of the sexist exclusion of Beauvoir from the philosophical canon; reveals evidence that the African-American writer Richard Wright provided Beauvoir with th…Read more
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68Diary of a Philosophy Student, Volume 1: 1926-27 (edited book)University of Illinois Press. 2006.Revelatory insights into the early life and thought of the preeminent French feminist philosopher Dating from her years as a philosophy student at the Sorbonne, this is the 1926-27 diary of the teenager who would become the famous French philosopher, author, and feminist, Simone de Beauvoir. Written years before her first meeting with Jean-Paul Sartre, these diaries reveal previously unknown details about her life and offer critical insights into her early philosophy and literary works. Presente…Read more
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48Hypatia Reborn: Essays in Feminist Philosophy (edited book)Indiana University Press. 1990.The first issues of the journal Hypatia, published from 1983 through 1985, truly heralded the rebirth of a feminist philosophy. Women in philosophy had been silenced since the days of the fourth-century Alexandrian woman philosopher and mathematician, Hypatia. With the establishment of the journal by the Society for Women in Philosophy, feminist issues and philosophy were legitimized. The first three issues of the journal were actually published as special issues of Women's Studies International…Read more
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32Wartime Diary (edited book)University of Illinois Press. 2009.Written from September 1939 to January 1941, Simone de Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to one of the scandalous texts that threaten to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir’s life and work. The account in Beauvoir’s Wartime Diary of her clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenges the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre, just as her account of completing her novel She …Read more
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176Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophical Writings (edited book)University of Illinois Press. 2004.Contents: "Analysis of Claude Bernard's Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine," "Two Unpublished Chapters from She Came to Stay," "Pyrrhus and Cineas," "A Review of The Phenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty," "Moral Idealism and Political Realism," "Existentialism and Popular Wisdom," "Jean-Paul Sartre," "An Eye for an Eye," "Literature and Metaphysics," "Introduction to an Ethics of Ambiguity," "An Existentialist Looks at Americans," and "What is Existentialism?"
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