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245 10 a| Emancipatory thinkingh| [electronic resource] :b| Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary political thought /c| Elaine Stavro.;

260 a| Montreal :b| McGill-Queen's University Press,c| 2018.;

300 a| xiv, 374 pages ;c| 23 cm;

490 1 a| McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ;v| 75;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-363) and index.;

505 0 a| Feminism and epistemology : debunking male epistemic privilege -- Rethinking the sex/gender distinction -- Beauvoir reconfigures social subjectivity in the wake of psychoanalysis -- Beauvoir's political thinking : the entwining of existentialism and Marxism -- Broadening emancipatory struggles : encounters with social movements, revolutionary regimes, and the media -- Rethinking the role of the critical intellectual : liberating or colonizing? -- Fictions of politics : affect, idea, and engagement.;

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520 a| "Most scholars have focused on The Second Sex and Simone de Beauvoir's fiction, concentrating on gender issues but ignoring her broader emancipatory vision. Though Beauvoir's political thinking is not as closely studied as her feminist works, it underpinned her activism and helped her navigate the dilemmas raised by revolutionary thought in the postwar period. In Emancipatory Thinking Elaine Stavro brings together Beauvoir's philosophy and her political interventions to produce complex ideas on emancipation. Drawing from a range of work, including novels, essays, autobiographical writings, and philosophic texts, Stavro explains that for Beauvoir freedom is a movement that requires both personal and collective transformation. Freedom is not guaranteed by world historical systems, material structures, willful action, or discursive practices, but requires engaged subjects who are able to take creative risks as well as synchronize with existing forces to work towards collective change. Beauvoir, Stavro asserts, resisted the trend of anti-humanism that has dominated French thinking since the 1960s and also managed to avoid the pitfalls of voluntarism and individualism. In fact, Stavro argues, Beauvoir appreciated the impact of material, socio-economic, institutional forces, without foregoing the capacity to initiate. Employing Beauvoir's existential insights and understanding of embodied and situated subjectivity to recent debates within gender, literary, sociological, cultural, and political studies, Emancipatory Thinking provides a lens to explore the current political and theoretical landscape."--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Emancipatory thinking Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary political thought / Elaine Stavro.

Author/creator	Stavro, Elaine, 1952-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018.
Description	xiv, 374 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost
Subjects	Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986--Political and social views. Political science--Philosophy.

Series	McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 75 McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; 75. ^A664133
Contents	Feminism and epistemology : debunking male epistemic privilege -- Rethinking the sex/gender distinction -- Beauvoir reconfigures social subjectivity in the wake of psychoanalysis -- Beauvoir's political thinking : the entwining of existentialism and Marxism -- Broadening emancipatory struggles : encounters with social movements, revolutionary regimes, and the media -- Rethinking the role of the critical intellectual : liberating or colonizing? -- Fictions of politics : affect, idea, and engagement.
Abstract	"Most scholars have focused on The Second Sex and Simone de Beauvoir's fiction, concentrating on gender issues but ignoring her broader emancipatory vision. Though Beauvoir's political thinking is not as closely studied as her feminist works, it underpinned her activism and helped her navigate the dilemmas raised by revolutionary thought in the postwar period. In Emancipatory Thinking Elaine Stavro brings together Beauvoir's philosophy and her political interventions to produce complex ideas on emancipation. Drawing from a range of work, including novels, essays, autobiographical writings, and philosophic texts, Stavro explains that for Beauvoir freedom is a movement that requires both personal and collective transformation. Freedom is not guaranteed by world historical systems, material structures, willful action, or discursive practices, but requires engaged subjects who are able to take creative risks as well as synchronize with existing forces to work towards collective change. Beauvoir, Stavro asserts, resisted the trend of anti-humanism that has dominated French thinking since the 1960s and also managed to avoid the pitfalls of voluntarism and individualism. In fact, Stavro argues, Beauvoir appreciated the impact of material, socio-economic, institutional forces, without foregoing the capacity to initiate. Employing Beauvoir's existential insights and understanding of embodied and situated subjectivity to recent debates within gender, literary, sociological, cultural, and political studies, Emancipatory Thinking provides a lens to explore the current political and theoretical landscape."-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-363) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2018411070
ISBN	9780773553545 (hardback)
ISBN	9780773553552 (paper)

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