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To a reader of this new translation - a younger feminist perhaps, for whom the very title could seem as quaint as a pair of bloomers - I might recommend that the best way to understand The Second Sex is to learn it within the spirit it was written: as a deep and pressing personal meditation on a real hope that, as she is going to most likely uncover, remains to be elusive for many people: to develop into, in each sense, one ’s personal woman. At the conclusion of their discuss, she writes, "I couldn't help but remark to my distinguished viewers that each query asked about Sartre concerned his work, whereas all those requested about Beauvoir involved her private life." Yet Sartre ’s work, and particularly the existentialist notion of an opposition between a sovereign self - a topic - and an objectified Other, gave Beauvoir the conceptual scaffold for The Second Sex, while her life as a woman (certainly, as Sartre ’s woman) impelled her to put in writing it. If Beauvoir has proved to be an irresistible topic for biographers, it's, partially, as a result of she and Sartre, as a pharaonic couple of incestuous deities, reigned over twentieth-century French intellectual life within the decades of its greatest ferment. |
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