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. Presented here for the first time in translation and fully annotated, the diary is completed by essays from Barbara Klaw and Margaret A. Simons that address its philosophical, historical, and literary significance. The volume represents an invaluable resource for tracing the development of Beauvoir’s independent thinking and influence on the world.
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“This is a magnificent piece of work. It is an engaging read and lets English readers to whom French is not accessible have first-hand access to some now much-discussed evidence regarding the independence of Beauvoir’s thought. The translation is beautiful, smooth, and true. A real coup!” -- Claudia Card, Emma Goldman Professor of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin
“This book is an enormously significant event which scholars have been eagerly awaiting for quite some time. Study of Beauvoir’s diaries not only alerts us to fascinating and unknown influences on her intellectual and personal development, but it could also form the basis for an amazing study of how the raw material of adolescent emotion, all its masochism and its narcissism, became transmuted into the readable and beautiful texts from which we can all learn so much.” -- Meryl Altman, director of women’s studies, DePauw University
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Barbara Klaw is a professor of French at Northern Kentucky University. She is the author of Le Paris de Simone de Beauvoir (Syllepse, 1999) and numerous articles in scholarly journals and books.
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In December 1924, when Simone de Beauvoir almost certainly wrote her essay analyzing Claude Bernard's Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale (Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine), part 1 (1865),1 a classic text in the philosophy of science, she was a sixteen-year-old student in a senior-level philosophy class at the Institut Adeline-Désir, or Cours Désir, a private Catholic girls' school that she had attended since the age of five. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sagesse des nations, metaphysical novel, pure interiority, bouches inutiles, experimental reasoning, deuxième sexe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Madame Miquel, Claude Bernard, The Ethics of Ambiguity, Mademoiselle Vaisson, Force of Circumstance, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, America Day, United States, Phenomenology of Mind, Don Juan, Monsieur Miquel, Bernard Frechtman, Van Gogh, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Blood of Others, Françoise Miquel, Peter Green, Immanuel Kant, Toril Moi, Elisabeth Labroux, The Purge Browse Sample Pages:
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In December 1924, when Simone de Beauvoir almost certainly wrote her essay analyzing Claude Bernard's Introduction à l'étude de la médecine expérimentale (Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine), part 1 (1865),1 a classic text in the philosophy of science, she was a sixteen-year-old student in a senior-level philosophy class at the Institut Adeline-Désir, or Cours Désir, a private Catholic girls' school that she had attended since the age of five. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sagesse des nations, metaphysical novel, pure interiority, bouches inutiles, experimental reasoning, deuxième sexe Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, Madame Miquel, Claude Bernard, The Ethics of Ambiguity, Mademoiselle Vaisson, Force of Circumstance, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, Jean-Paul Sartre, America Day, United States, Phenomenology of Mind, Don Juan, Monsieur Miquel, Bernard Frechtman, Van Gogh, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Blood of Others, Françoise Miquel, Peter Green, Immanuel Kant, Toril Moi, Elisabeth Labroux, The Purge Browse Sample Pages:
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- Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27 (Beauvoir Series) by Simone de Beauvoir in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Michele Le Doeuff: Operative Philosophy and Imaginary Practice by Max Deutscher on page 146, and Back Matter
- The Body: A Reader (Routledge Student Readers) by Mariam Fraser in Front Matter
- Twentieth-Century French Philosophy: Key Themes and Thinkers by Alan D. Schrift in Back Matter
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