Editor's Introduction / Présentation du numéro

In: Simone de Beauvoir studies: a publication of the Simone de Beauvoir Society, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 1-16

Abstract

Abstract
In the Editor's Introduction to volume 30 of Simone de Beauvoir Studies, and the first standard issue of the relaunched version of the journal, Jennifer McWeeny identifies two trends in Beauvoir's scholarship that characterize the present state of the field: the emphasis on the situated, first-person perspective and the need for a holistic method of interpretation that attends to the underexplored or misrepresented moments in Beauvoir's oeuvre. McWeeny also argues that the events of this year, 2020, have brought us in-sight and an existentialist perception similar to those that fueled Beauvoir's political awakenings in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s.