Becoming Beauvoir: A Life
- Submitting institution
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University of Oxford
- Unit of assessment
- 30 - Philosophy
- Output identifier
- 12215
- Type
- A - Authored book
- DOI
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- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- ISBN
- 9781350047198
- Open access status
- -
- Month of publication
- August
- Year of publication
- 2019
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- This substantial book (496pp) provides an account of the development of Simone de Beauvoir’s philosophy in historical context. It charts Beauvoir’s intellectual formation prior to meeting Jean-Paul Sartre, the French reception of phenomenology, or the development of her feminism, demonstrating the roots of her thinking in French intellectual traditions that are little known outside the francophone world. It required studying an extensive body of philosophical, literary, and epistolary primary resources, archival research in original languages (French), as well as engaging with an extensive secondary literature in both French and English. Translations are either published or in process in 12 languages.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
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- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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