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.
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- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Our Beauvoir
- 1. (Re)Encountering The Second Sex
- Part I. Enemies: Monsters, Men, and Misogynist Art
- 2. “An Eye for an Eye” with Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem
- 3. The Marquis de Sade’s Bodies in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
- Part II. Allies:
Antinomies of Action in Conditions of Violence
- 4. Violence, Pathologies, and Resistance in Frantz Fanon
- 5. In Solidarity with Richard Wright
- Part III. Friends:
Conversations that Change the Rules
- 6. Perverse Protests from Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier
- 7. Unbecoming Women with Violette Leduc, Rahel Varnhagen, and Margarethe von Trotta
- Conclusion: A Happy Ending
- Notes
- References
- Index
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