{"product_id":"politics-with-beauvoir-9780822369554","title":"Politics with Beauvoir","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003ePolitics with Beauvoir\u003c\/i\u003e Lori Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through the notion of the encounter.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[Marso's] work on de Beauvoir demonstrates convincingly the inaccuracy of reading feminist theory as a species of thinking separated from politics.\" -- Kathleen B. Jones * Los Angeles Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping and novel reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s politics of freedom and Beauvoirian feminism. . . . A welcome contribution to Beauvoir scholarship and feminist political theory.\" -- Megan Burke * H-France, H-Net Reviews *\u003cbr\u003e\"Marso brilliantly demonstrates the way in which encounter is at the very center of everything Beauvoir wrote . . . . An important new contribution that extends studies on Beauvoir.\" -- Mary Walsh * Review of Politics *\u003cbr\u003e\"This book has a wide appeal. . . . Informative and accessible.\" -- Angela Shepherd * Feminist Theory *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003ePolitics with Beauvoir\u003c\/i\u003e is an essential text for any scholar who is interested in expanding their engagement with Beauvoir’s work. Just as the Beauvoirian encounters Marso stages in this text illuminate the fecundity of real engagement with alterity and difference, so, too, does the text itself show the possibilities for encounters in a world where Beauvoir truly becomes \u003ci\u003eours\u003c\/i\u003e.” -- Qrescent Mali Mason * Asian Journal of Social Science *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  vii\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Our Beauvoir  1\u003cbr\u003e 1. (Re)Encountering \u003ci\u003eThe Second Sex\u003c\/i\u003e  17\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Enemies: Monsters, Men, and Misogynist Art\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"An Eye for an Eye\" with Hannah Arendt's \u003ci\u003eEichmann in Jerusalem\u003c\/i\u003e  41\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Marquis de Sade's Bodies in Lars von Trier's \u003ci\u003eAntichrist\u003c\/i\u003e  67\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Allies: Antinomies of Action in Conditions of Violence\u003cbr\u003e 4. Violence, Pathologies, and Resistance in Frantz Fanon  97\u003cbr\u003e 5. In Solidarity with Richard Wright  122\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Friends: Conversations that Change the Rules\u003cbr\u003e 6. Perverse Protests from Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier  153\u003cbr\u003e 7. Unbecoming Women with Violette Leduc, Rahel Varnhagen, and Margarethe von Trotta  176\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: A Happy Ending  203\u003cbr\u003e Notes  209\u003cbr\u003e References  235\u003cbr\u003e Index  247","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406106075479,"sku":"9780822369554","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822369554.jpg?v=1730494549","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/politics-with-beauvoir-9780822369554","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}