This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to Simone de Beauvoir's philosophical thought. Beauvoir has long been recognized as the twentieth century's leading feminist writer, but the full extent of her significance as a philosopher is just coming into focus. This study examines the history of Beauvoir's development into one of the most original and influential thinkers of her era. 
The Fullbrooks begin with an account of Beauvoir's formation as a philosopher. They then explore her early writing on philosophical method and the ways this shaped her fiction. The book traces the development of Beauvoir's central theories of embodied consciousness and intersubjectivity, and examines her concepts of the "individual" and the "social other". An analysis of Beauvoir's ethics of liberation leads to philosophical readings of her great works of applied ethics, The Second Sex and Old Age. Finally, Beauvoir's contribution to continuing debates about consciousness, the body, the self and the other is reassessed. The publication of this introduction to Beauvoir's philosophy is an important contribution to the current renaissance of Beauvoir studies. Clear, accessible and lively, this book is essential reading not only for students of Beauvoir but for anyone interested in the submerged record of women's impact on philosophy.

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Fullbrook, Edward

Fullbrook, Kate

Literature & Fiction

Polity

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction

Sex and Philosophy: Rethinking de Beauvoir and Sartre

From the author's introduction:As the Sartre-Beauvoir story developed and became part of contemporary mythology, it was increasingly filtered through two presumptions regarding the nature of the partnership. One concerned sex, the other philosophy. The classic view of Beauvoir, encouraged by her own writing and by Sartre's acquiescence, has been one of Sartre as womanizer and Beauvoir as the patient, loyal female victim. The legend also consistently portrayed Beauvoir as the midwife of Sartre's philosophy rather than a thinker in her own right, encouraging the view that her philosophical writings were mere echoes of the thoughts of her man. But over the past 25 years big chunks of documentary evidence have become public which show that both of these traditional interpretations of the Sartre-Beauvoir story are profoundly false. It is now clear, as this book explains, that it was Beauvoir's demand for sexual freedom that dictated the open terms of their relationship and that it fell to Sartre at least as often as to Beauvoir to perform the role of midwife for the other's philosophy.Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the most brilliant, influential, and scandalous intellectuals of the 20th century. They are remembered as much for the lives they led as for their influence on the way we think. Their committed but notoriously open union created huge controversy in their lifetime. And even before their deaths they had become one of history's legendary couples, renowned for the passion, daring, humor and intellectual intensity of their relationship. This fascinating book presents a biography of Sartre and de Beauvoir's relationship and offers some highly original theories relating to the extent of de Beauvoir's contribution to their shared ideas. Through a thorough examination of Sartre and de Beauvoir's major works, the authors present a compelling story of their romantic and intellectual relationships.

Biographies & Memoirs

Professionals & Academics

Continuum

From the author's introduction:
As the Sartre-Beauvoir story developed and became part of contemporary mythology, it was increasingly filtered through two presumptions regarding the nature of the partnership. One concerned sex, the other philosophy. The classic view of Beauvoir, encouraged by her own writing and by Sartre's acquiescence, has been one of Sartre as womanizer and Beauvoir as the patient, loyal female victim. The legend also consistently portrayed Beauvoir as the midwife of Sartre's philosophy rather than a thinker in her own right, encouraging the view that her philosophical writings were mere echoes of the thoughts of her man. But over the past 25 years big chunks of documentary evidence have become public which show that both of these traditional interpretations of the Sartre-Beauvoir story are profoundly false. It is now clear, as this book explains, that it was Beauvoir's demand for sexual freedom that dictated the open terms of their relationship and that it fell to Sartre at least as often as to Beauvoir to perform the role of midwife for the other's philosophy. Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir were two of the most brilliant, influential, and scandalous intellectuals of the 20th century. They are remembered as much for the lives they led as for their influence on the way we think. Their committed but notoriously open union created huge controversy in their lifetime. And even before their deaths they had become one of history's legendary couples, renowned for the passion, daring, humor and intellectual intensity of their relationship. 
This fascinating book presents a biography of Sartre and de Beauvoir's relationship and offers some highly original theories relating to the extent of de Beauvoir's contribution to their shared ideas. Through a thorough examination of Sartre and de Beauvoir's major works, the authors present a compelling story of their romantic and intellectual relationships.

This book is an authoritative and accessible guide to the pluralist movement threatening to revolutionize mainstream economics.  Leading figures in the field explain why pluralism is a required virtue in economics, how it came to be blocked and what it means for the way we think about, research and teach economics. The first part of the book looks at how neoclassical economics gained its stranglehold, particularly in the United States, and how the social and intellectual underpinnings of economics have enabled it to maintain this in the face of inconsistent evidence from the real world.  This is then contrasted with different approaches to pluralism.  Pluralist Economics then goes on to address the array of arguments for establishing pluralism, showing how economics came to function as a concealed ideology and not as a science, and how value-free economics is an illusion.  Finally, it addresses the practical problems presented by this different way of doing economics. 

Pluralist Economics

Business & Money

Economics

Zed Books

This is a great book. Against the background of the dogmatism of much of modern economics, Fullbrook has produced an innovative, wide-ranging argument for narrative pluralism. The timely book is beautifully written, accessible to all, provocative, extraordinarily insightful, and extremely compelling. Tony Lawson, Cambridge University, UK This fascinating and profound work should be read ... by anyone who is taken in by mainstream economics' false claims of scientific objectivity. Fullbrook's erudite, systematic and thoughtful investigation into the philosophical and conceptual bases of the "singular narrative" exposes the limitations of neoclassical economics and its degenerate practice, and provides a powerful critique of different models of economic rationality. Jayati Ghosh, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India For anyone interested in the state of modern (mainstream) economics, and especially in how and why the neoclassical school has remained so dominant since the Crash of 2008, Fullbrook's book is a must-read. It goes far beyond other treatments in the way that it compares (unfavourably) the prevailing "mono-epistemology" in economics with the norms of epistemological pluralism in the natural sciences. Robert H. Wade, London School of Economics This genuinely original book... scrutinizes the weird make-believe world of mainstream economics and its narrative dogmatism, determinism and atomism, it constitutes a powerful plaidoyer for real pluralism in economics. Fullbrook brings bold new perspectives on the logic of economic choice, rationality, ideology, naturalism, and microfoundations. Whether you agree with him or not, he forces you to think. Lars P Syll, Malmö University, Sweden This book is provocative and highly convincing. It shows us that there is no such thing as a one and unique truth, neither in natural sciences, nor in social sciences. Because reality is multifaceted, narrative pluralism is essential for the advancement of knowledge and for the good health of a democratic society. Fullbrook changes our understanding of what is science and what is ideology. André Orléan, l'École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris The neoclassical monopoly in economics necessarily ignores most of what really counts, and locks out competitors. Fullbrook establishes this persuasively in a thoughtful, grounded, and accessible study. To be adequate, economic understanding requires a plurality of approaches. This book shows conclusively that no other position is tenable. Anver Offer, All Souls College, Oxford University, UK Edward Fullbrook's Narrative Fixation in Economics is an exceptionally erudite exploration of the descent of economics into scientism and anti-knowledge. Julie Nelson, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Narrative Fixation in Economics (Wea Books)

College Publications

"Market-valuecaptures head-on the mathematical and analytic weaknesses of neoclassical economics . . . . it offers . . . ontological strengths that until now have largely eluded so many of the dissenters from economics' mainstream." ̶̶̶ ̶ Richard Parker, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Edward Fullbrook . . . shows that so-called "equilibrium" is impossible beyond the realm of individual and isolated markets . . . Some of his insights will no doubt become the key building blocks of the new economics the world needs so desperately today." ̶ ̶̶̶ ̶ Richard Koo, Nomura Research Institute, Japan "a deep re-think, this ground-breaking study teaches new lessons about the very foundations of economics." ̶ ̶̶̶ ̶ Lars Syll, Malmö University, Sweden ". . . a must read for all those who recognise the need to undermine the damaging hegemony of mainstream neoclassical economics." ̶ ̶̶̶ ̶ C. P. Chandrasekhar, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India "A simple idea but a great book. .. . . Its analysis . . . leads us to profound truths." ̶ ̶̶̶ ̶ André Orléan, Écoledes hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris ". . . provides foundations on which to tackle the devastating social and economic problems of the present age." ̶ ̶̶̶ ̶ Geoff Harcourt, Emeritus, Cambridge University and Uni. of New South Wales "Fullbrook shows . . . ; that general equilibrium - the holly grail of conventional economics - is logically impossible; and that inflation is not neutral but redistributional." ̶ ̶̶̶ ̶ Jonathan Nitzan, York University, Canada THE PLOT - This book's plot structure is simple but foreign to economics and, therefore, easily missed. So here is the plot's outline. 1. Market-value, a general quantitative order, is what distinguishes economics from other social sciences. 2. A quantitative order has a metrical structure, called its metric. 3. Metrics vary between quantitative orders, e.g. length, temperature and angle. 4. Metrics are discovered by inventing and executing measurement operations on the quantitative orders. 5. The measurement of market-value differs from that of other quantitative orders in that both the invention and execution of its measurement operation, i.e. market exchange, predate and exist independently of scientific inquiry. 6. This independence enabled economics to unconsciously assume market-value's metric rather than empirically identify it. 7. This book breaks with that tradition by applying abstract algebra to market-value measurements so as to identify, rather than assume, market-value's metric. 8. This metric turns out to be radically different from the one unconsciously assumed in constructing economic theory. 9. With the real metric in view, large long-standing paradoxes in economics are immediately resolved. 10. Knowledge of market-value's metric also immediately reveals a universal macro-to-micro causal link that effects market-value measurements in all markets. 11. Analysis of the revealed metric shows how the macro-to-micro and micro-to-macro links are interconnected. 12. The macro-to-micro causal link can be manipulated through individual markets. 13. This link's openness to manipulation means that economics needs to include political economy. 14. Discovery of market-value's metric provides an empirically-based theoretical core that can embrace most heterodox economics and large parts of the neoclassical mainstream. 15. Public knowledge of market-value's metric is contrary to the interests of The One Percent.

Market-value: Its measurement and metric

World Economics Association

THE ESSAYS COLLECTED HERE ADDRESS THE MOST PROFOUND SET OF ISSUES HUMANITY HAS EVER FACED. “This is the finest collection of essays I have seen on the imperative of living lightly on the planet and the need for a new economics to guide us.” James Gustave Speth, former dean of Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies “In this extraordinary book, climate change and related issues are addressed from a critical perspective by a set of distinguished ecological economists and natural scientists. A most valuable contribution to a deep understanding of the environmental challenges with important insights on ways to deal with them.” Osvaldo Néstor Feinstein, Universidad Complutense de Madrid “From mass extinction to climate chaos, the world needs new ideas about how to build economies founded on principles of social justice and ecological sustainability. This book brings together some of the best thinkers to show what those alternatives might look like. It is essential reading for everyone." Peter Newell, University of Sussex, author of Climate Capitalism The economic common sense of the last half century blinded us to our collective environmental consequences as a species. But now natural scientists have, for some of us, opened our eyes to our dire situation. “Extinction Rebellion” and other new civil society and expert activist movements have begun to appear. Encouragingly, the young seem particularly attuned to the scale of the crisis they have been bequeathed. A call to sanity has been initiated. Are we sufficiently rational as a species to respond? Science tells us that the ecological emergency requires a fundamental reorientation of how the global economy works. This requires a mass mobilization to an extent never previously seen outside of a war setting. However, as these essays explain, the very form and function of our political economies resist both recognizing the gravity of the situation and translating any recognition into concrete and immediate action. The essays collected here are predominantly informed by an ecological economics perspective. As such, they are implicitly or explicitly critical of the theory and role of mainstream economics both in creating the emergency and now in hiding its existence. Especially at issue are mainstream concepts that are antithetical to recognizing environmental limits and to remaining within them. Natural scientists tell us that if we make systemic changes now, it is likely that we can avoid the ultimate catastrophe. But this requires, beginning today, massive action in the public sphere, including fundamental changes in the way economics is taught each year to millions of the young in Economics 101.

Economics and the Ecosystem

This collection of essays from leading economists in the MMT debate offers the reader a range of viewpoints from which to become informed about what is set to be a significant part of economic policy discussion in the coming years.\n“This stimulating book provides a clear account both of what Modern Monetary Theory entails and of the many objections to it. Its great value is that it will make readers have to think for themselves through many fundamental issues of macro-economic theory and policy.” - Charles Goodhart, London School of Economics\n“The merits of Modern Monetary Theory have become the most contentious issue in Post Keynesian macroeconomics. This remarkable volume presents the full range of opinions on MMT, from its enthusiastic proponents to its severest critics, with intermediate positions (critical support; sympathetic scepticism) also being set out. The book is essential reading for everyone with an interest in heterodox macroeconomic theory and policy.” - John King, La Trobe University & Federation University Australia\n“Recently Modern Monetary Theory has generated a lot of heat in newspaper columns and blogs, but relatively little in the way of light. This collection offers an urgently required, more considered treatment, challenging readers to think about the role, sources and implications of sovereign currency and money creation as social processes. The volume addresses the crucial question of what MMT would mean for practical workable policy agendas and the design and function of macroeconomic governance at an epochal moment when the future of the planet and social order is at stake.” - Andrew P. Baker, Sheffield University, UK\n“Modern Monetary Theory has found its moment in the sun. One advocate, Stephanie Kelton, is chief economic advisor to Bernie Sanders; Forbes, The New Yorker, and many newspapers, have published pieces on it. This balanced and readable collection is an excellent place to go for those wanting to understand this economic doctrine.” - Steven Pressman, Colorado State University & Co-editor, Review of Political Economy\n"So much has been written about MMT in the press that one gets at best a superficial understanding of its rich and penetrating implications. Criticism from this circle tends, as a result, to be ill-informed and misleading. Not true of the current volume, however. Here we find honest and carefully considered critiques and affirmations of what may stand as the foundation of a progressive and forward-looking transformation of advanced market economies." - Roy J. Rotheim, Skidmore College, US\nContributions from: L. Randall Wray, Trond Andresen, Phil Armstrong, Bruno Bonizzi, Annina Kaltenbrunner & Jo Michell, David Colander, Paul Davidson, Dirk H. Ehnts & Maurice Höfgen, Jan Kregel, Marc Lavoie, Tony Lawson, Anne Mayhew, Richard Murphy, Thomas I. Palley, Louis-Philippe Rochon, Malcolm Sawyer, Alan Shipman, Jan Toporowski, Jamie Morgan & Edward Fullbrook.

Modern Monetary Theory and its Critics

Morgan, Jamie

The Inequality Crisis

World Economics Association Books

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Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers)

Simone de Beauvoir: A Critical Introduction

Sex and Philosophy: Rethinking de Beauvoir and Sartre

Sex and Philosophy: Rethinking de Beauvoir and Sartre

Pluralist Economics

Narrative Fixation in Economics (Wea Books)

Market-value: Its measurement and metric

Economics and the Ecosystem

Modern Monetary Theory and its Critics

The Inequality Crisis