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The Ethics of Ambiguity
by De Beauvoir, Simone; Bernard Frechtman [Translated from the French]
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About This Item
New York: Philosophical Library, 1948 First printing of the first English edition, original blue-gray paper boards, 161pp., with index, in original dust jacket with 16 titles on back cover (also issued in green cloth with 21 titles on the back cover; no priority established [Mahaffey, 216. See France, 287, 298]. Book with faint toning to endpaper and light wear/rubbing to edge of boards, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear to upper spine end, mild wear and rubbing to spine ends and corners, tanning to lettering and design of front cover, and light rubbing to cover and spine, else fine.
Synopsis
The Ethics of Ambiguity is Simone de Beauvoir's second major essay, nearly twice as long as her first, Pyrrhus and Cineas. After giving a lecture in 1945, she found herself claiming that it was impossible to base an ethic upon the foundations of Sartre's L'Etre et le Néant, and a year later she took up the challenge, taking some six months over the task and publishing the text first in installments in Les Temps modernes, then as a book in November 1947.
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- Idler Fine Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 022489
- Title
- The Ethics of Ambiguity
- Author
- De Beauvoir, Simone; Bernard Frechtman [Translated from the French]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Philosophical Library
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1948
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- French Literature, Ethics, Philosophy, Existentialism, Fiction, Women Writers.
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