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University Of Illinois Press - Wartime diary | simone de beauvoir, margaret a. simons, anne deing cordero

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• Provocative insights into Beauvoir's philosophical and personal development during wartime Written from September 1939 to January 1941
• Simone de Beauvoir's Wartime Diary gives English readers unabridged access to a scandalous text that threatened to overturn traditional views of Beauvoir's life and work
• Beauvoir's clandestine affair with Jacques Bost and sexual relationships with various young women challenge the conventional picture of Beauvoir as the devoted companion of Jean-Paul Sartre
• At the same time
• Her account of completing her novel She Came to Stay at a time when Sartre had just begun Being and Nothingness questions the traditional view of Beauvoir's novel as merely illustrating Sartre's philosophy
• Wartime Diary also traces Beauvoir's philosophical transformation as she broke from the prewar solipsism of She Came to Stay in favor of the postwar political engagement of The Second Sex
• Beauvoir's emerging existentialist ethics reflect the dramatic collective experiences of refugees fleeing German invasion and life under Nazi occupation
• The evolution of her thought also reveals the courageous reaffirmation of her individuality in constructing a humanist ethics of freedom and solidarity
• This edition also features previously unpublished material
• Including her musings about consciousness and order