内容简介
NewlytranslatedandunabridgedinEnglishforthefirsttime,SimonedeBeauvoir’smasterworkisapowerfulanalysisoftheWesternnotionof“woman,”andagroundbreakingexplorationofinequalityandotherness.Thislong-awaitedneweditionreinstatessignificantportionsoftheoriginalFrenchtextthatwerecutinthefirstEnglishtranslation.Vitalandgroundbreaking,Beauvoir’spioneeringandimpressivetextremainsaspertinenttodayasitwassixtyyearsago,andwillcontinuetoprovokeandinspiregenerationsofmenandwomentocome.
作者简介
SimonedeBeauvoirwasborninParisin1908.In1929shebecametheyoungestpersonevertoobtaintheagrégationinphilosophyattheSorbonne,placingsecondtoJean-PaulSartre.ShetaughtatlycéesatMarseilleandRouenfrom1931to1937,andinParisfrom1938to1943.Afterthewar,sheemergedasoneoftheleadersoftheexistentialistmovement,workingwithSartreonLesTempsModernes.Theauthorofseveralbooks,includingTheMandarins(1957),whichwasawardedthePrixGoncourt,Beauvoirwasoneofthemostinfluentialthinkersofhergeneration.Shediedin1986.ConstanceBordeandSheilaMalovany-Chevallier,bothAmerican,arelongtimeresidentsofFranceandformerteachersattheInstitutd’EtudesPolitiquesinParis.JudithThurman,authorofIsakDinesenandSecretsoftheFlesh:ALifeofColette,isastaffwriteratTheNewYorker.