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03836aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 8F3AC1D4840911E89478B85797128E48 003 SILO 005 20180710010618 008 171124t20182018quca b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0773553541 020 $a 9780773553545 020 $a 077355355X 020 $a 9780773553552 035 $a (OCoLC)1012799124 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d TOH $d NLC $d OCLCO $d CDX $d SILO 050 4 $a B2430.B344 $b S73 2018 055 0 $a B2430.B344 $b S73 2018 082 04 $a 320.092 $2 23 084 $a cci1icc $2 lacc 084 $a coll13 $2 lacc 100 1 $a Stavro, Elaine, $e author. 245 10 $a Emancipatory thinking : $b Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary political thought / $c Elaine Stavro. 264 1 $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. 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. 600 10 $a Beauvoir, Simone de, $d 1908-1986. 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY / General. $2 bisacsh 650 0 $a Political science $x Philosophy. 776 1 $a Stavro, Elaine, 1952-, author. $t Emancipatory thinking.: $d Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2018. $k McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; $k McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; $w (CaOONL)20179078496 830 0 $a McGill-Queen's studies in the history of ideas ; $v 75. 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191210025747.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190502023246.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=8F3AC1D4840911E89478B85797128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search