Quiet Moments in a War : The Letters of Jean-Paul Sartre to Simone de Beauvoir, Tapa blanda - 1995

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Penguin, 1995-01-01. Paperback. Very Good. 9x6x1. Softcover. Good binding and cover. Shelf wear. Small mark on front end page, else unmarked. <br> "There are some thinkers who are, from the very beginning, unambiguously identified as philosophers (e.g., Plato). There are others whose philosophical place is forever contested (e.g., Nietzsche); and there are those who have gradually won the right to be admitted into the philosophical fold. Simone de Beauvoir is one of these belatedly acknowledged philosophers. Identifying herself as an author rather than as a philosopher and calling herself the midwife of Sartre's existential ethics rather than a thinker in her own right, Beauvoir's place in philosophy had to be won against her word. That place is now uncontested. The international conference celebrating the centennial of Beauvoir's birth organized by Julia Kristeva is one of the more visible signs of Beauvoir's growing influence and status. Her enduring contributions to… Leer más

New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Trade Paperback. Fine. First printing of this trade paperback edition. A light toning of the page edges due to age.