Politics with Beauvoir : freedom in the encounter / Lori Jo Marso.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marso, Lori Jo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Feminism--Political aspects.

Feminism.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2017.

Summary:

In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Jo 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 Marso's notion of the encounter. Starting with Beauvoir's political encounters with several of her key contemporaries including Hannah Arendt, Robert Brasillach, Richard Wright, Frantz Fanon, and Violette Leduc, Marso also moves beyond historical context to stage encounters between Beauvoir and others such as Chantal Akerman, Lars von Trier, Rahel Varnhagen, Alison Bechdel, the Marquis de Sade, and Margarethe von Trotta. From intimate to historical, always affective though often fraught and divisive, Beauvoir's encounters, Marso shows, exemplify freedom as a shared, relational, collective practice. Politics with Beauvoir gives us a new Beauvoir and a new way of thinking about politics—as embodied and coalitional.

Contents:

(Re)encountering the Second Sex

Enemies : Monsters, men, and misogynist art

"An eye for an eye" with Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem

The Marquis de Sade's bodies in Lars von Trier's Antichrist

Allies : Antinomies of action in conditions of violence

Violence, pathologies, and resistance in Frantz Fanon

In solidarity with Richard Wright

Friends : Conversations that change the rules

Perverse protests from Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier

Unbecoming women with Violette Leduc, Rahel Varnhagen, and Margarethe von Trotta

Conclusion: a happy ending.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372844

0822372843

OCLC:

1021254653