Analysis of Claude Bernard's Introduction to the study of experimental medicine [1924] / introduction by Margaret A. Simons and Hélène N. Peters. -- Two unpublished chapters from She came to stay [1938] / introduction by Edward Fullbrook. -- Pyrrhus and Cineas (1944) / introduction by Debra Bergoffen. -- A review of The phenomenology of perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1945) / introduction by Sara Heinämaa. -- Moral idealism and political realism (1945) / introduction by Sonia Kruks. -- Existentialism and popular wisdom (1945) / introduction by Eleanore Holveck. -- Jean-Paul Sartre [1945] / introduction by Karen Vintges. -- An eye for eye (1946) / introduction by Kristana Arp. -- Literature and metaphysics (1946) / introduction by Margaret A. Simons. -- Introduction to an ethics of ambiguity (1946) / introduction by Gail Weiss. -- An existentialist looks at Americans (1947) / introduction by Shannon M. Mussett. -- What is existentialism? (1947) / introduction by Nancy Bauer
"As the first complete, scholarly edition of Beauvoir's philosophical essays in English translation, this volume aims at nothing less than the transformation of Simone de Beauvoir's place in the canon. Despite growing interest in her philosophy, Beauvoir remains widely misunderstood and is typically portrayed as a mere philosophical follower of her companion, Jean-Paul Sartre. In Philosophical Writings, Beauvoir herself shows that nothing could be further from the truth."--Jacket
