Contribution to the Cahier: Replacing the old heroes: Beauvoir’s defence of the existentialist protagonist

Authors

  • Erika Ruonakoski University of Helsinki, Finland

Abstract

In her article “Anciens et nouveaux héros”, included in L’Herne collection of texts by and on Simone de Beauvoir, Beauvoir elucidates the birth of the metaphysical novel and protagonists typical to it against the backdrop of the French psychological novel. Beauvoir’s descriptions shed light on the post-war literary scene in France as well as on her own stylistic ideals. Protagonists of the metaphysical novel are, according to Beauvoir, defined by their attitudes towards basic metaphysical problems rather than by their temperament or social position.

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Author Biography

Erika Ruonakoski, University of Helsinki, Finland

Erika Ruonakoski is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland. She has translated a collection of Beauvoir’s essays into Finnish, as well as The Ethics of Ambiguity and an unabridged version of The Second Sex (the last-mentioned together with Iina Koskinen and Hanna Lukkari). She is also the writer of several articles on Beauvoir. Currently Ruonakoski works in an interdisciplinary project, Empathising with the Non-Human Other in Ancient Greek Literature, which combines phenomenological-existentialist philosophy with Greek studies.

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Published

2014-06-23

How to Cite

Ruonakoski, E. (2014). Contribution to the Cahier: Replacing the old heroes: Beauvoir’s defence of the existentialist protagonist. Sapere Aude - Journal of Philosophy, 5(9), 415–419. Retrieved from https://periodicos.pucminas.br/SapereAude/article/view/7689

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 9 (2014): Epistemologia Feminista

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RESENHAS/REVIEWS

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