Who the Hell is Simone de Beauvoir?: And what are her theories all about?

For students, teachers and smart-thinkers, our carefully structured, jargon-free series provides the base knowledge needed to get your head around complicated theories of brilliant intellectuals. Written in an accessible and engaging way, each book takes you through the life and influences of one great thinker, before taking a deep dive into three of their key theories in plain English. Smart thinking made easy! Simone de Beauvoir was an existentialist philosopher, writer and social theorist, who helped shape both existentialist feminism and wider feminist theory. We begin with her life story and how key relationships and experiences impacted her thinking, before taking a deep dive into her key philosophical ideas. Exploring her concepts of freedom, authenticity and morality, we then look at how she proposed turning ontological freedom into ethical freedom. The final chapter focuses on her landmark work The Second Sex, analyzing its key ideas about gender and the historical and social construction of women's roles. While Beauvoir's existentialist thinking can at times seem complex, this book guides you through in an accessible and jargon-free way in the hope that it will bring fresh insights into our own thinking.

Pagina's: 148, Paperback, Bowden & Brazil