The Ethics of Ambiguity by Simone de Beauvoir

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Simone de Beauvoir, novelist, dramatist, and philosopher, was the most distinguished woman writer in modern France. A leading exponent of French existentialism, her work complements, though it is independent of, that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In The Ethics of Ambiguity, Madame de Beauvoir penetrates at once to the central ethical problems of modern man: what shall he do, how shall he go about making values, in the face of this awareness of the absurdity of his existence? She forces the reader to face the absurdity of the human condition and then, having done so, proceeds to develop a dialectic of ambiguity which will enable him not to master the chaos, but to create with it.

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• ISBN: 080650160X
• Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
• Pub. Date: June 2000
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Comments from the Seller: New York 1991 Paperback Later Printing Very Good+ 080650160x. Used in trade paperback. Earlier version of the cover art. A clean, tight copy.; 8vo 8"-9" tall; 159 pages; The Ethics of Ambiguity (French title: Pour une morale de l'ambigu?t?) 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 N?ant, 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 (Wikipedia. )