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  • Becoming Beauvoir

    A Life

    by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    PROSE Award for Excellence in Biography and Autobiography Finalist 2020“One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de BeauvoirA symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Sartre and Theology

    by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    Series series Philosophy and Theology
    Jean-Paul Sartre was one of the twentieth century's most prominent atheists. But his philosophy was informed by theological writers and themes in ways that have not previously been acknowledged. In Sartre and Theology, Kirkpatrick examines Sartre's philosophical formation and rarely discussed early work, demonstrating how, and which, theology shaped Sartre's thinking. She also shows that Sartre's ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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    Becoming Beauvoir

    A Life

    by Dr Kate Kirkpatrick ...
    Narrated by Rachel Atkins ...

    Unabridged

    14 hours 59 min

    Bloomsbury presents Becoming Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick, read by Rachel Atkins.“One is not born a woman, but becomes one”, Simone de BeauvoirA symbol of liberated womanhood, Simone de Beauvoir’s unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Freedom, Being and Apricot Cocktails

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    Great philosophy meets powerful biography in this entertaining and immensely readable portrait of mid-20th century Paris and the fascinating characters of Sartre, de Beauvoir, Camus, and their circle, who loved and hated, drank and debated with each other—and forever changed the way we think about thinking.At the Existentialist Café is a thrilling look at the famous group of post-war thinkers who ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

  • Looking for The Stranger

    Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

    by Alice Kaplan ...
    A New York Times Notable Book. A literary exploration that is "surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel" ( PopMatters).The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as likely ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translating Milan Kundera

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  • Tete-a-Tete

    The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

    by Hazel Rowley ...
    “Enthralling . . . Here we find an ugly, walleyed existentialist philosopher, the elegantly beautiful author of The Second Sex and the Gallic equivalent of a bevy of young starlets who share the bed of one or the other--or sometimes both. Readers will turn these pages alternately mesmerized and appalled.” — Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book WorldPassionate, freethinking existentialist ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Dada and Surrealism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by David Hopkins ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The avant-garde movements of Dada and Surrealism continue to have a huge influence on cultural practice, especially in contemporary art, with its obsession with sexuality, fetishism, and shock tactics. In this new treatment of the subject, Hopkins focuses on the many debates surrounding these movements: the Marquis de Sade's Surrealist deification, issues of quality (How good is Dali?), the idea ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Frenchmen

    Or, My Life in Theory

    by Emily Eakin ...
    **“A marvelous book. It’s gossipy and personal and completely fascinating...cafe gossip with the footnotes left in.”— New York Times“A superbly engrossing adventure of ideas...this will surely be my philosophy book of the year.” —Sarah Bakewell, New York Times bestselling author of Humanly PossibleFrom leading critic and essayist Emily Eakin, a stylish personal history of French theory and its ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A Dangerous Liaison

    by Carole Seymour-Jones ...
    A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how these two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to a share a relationship that was to last over fifty years.Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne and the chestnut groves in the Limousin, to the cafes of Paris's Left Bank, we discover how the strikingly beautiful and gifted young Simone came to fall in ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Lovers of Philosophy

    How the Intimate Lives of Seven Philosophers Shaped Modern Thought

    by Warren Ward ...
    They were Europe's greatest thinkers, but what were they like at love?Lovers of Philosophy explores the love lives of seven philosophers, and how their most intimate experiences came to shape their ideas. In these pages, the reader learns about the significance of Kant's infatuation, Hegel's premarital liaisons, Nietzsche's heartbreak, Heidegger's hypocrisy, Sartre's promiscuous polyamory, ... Read more

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  • Hearts and Minds

    The Common Journey of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre

    by Axel Madsen ...
    A dual biography of the two most influential socio-political moralists of the twentieth century, whose lives were intertwined personally and intellectually for more than forty-six years. Madsen provides an engrossing view of the luminously transparent relationship that was unconventional yet faithful to its ideals. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus