Table Of ContentEMANCIPATORY THINKING
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McGill-Queen’s Studies in the History of Ideas
Series Editor: Philip J. Cercone
1 Problems of Cartesianism 10 Consent, Coercion, and Limit:
Edited by Thomas M. Lennon, The Medieval Origins of
John M. Nicholas, and John Parliamentary Democracy
W. Davis Arthur P. Monahan
2 The Development of the 11 Scottish Common Sense
Idea of History in Antiquity in Germany, 1768–1800:
Gerald A. Press A Contribution to the
History of Critical Philosophy
3 Claude Buffier and
Manfred Kuehn
Thomas Reid:
Two Common-Sense 12 Paine and Cobbett:
Philosophers The Transatlantic Connection
Louise Marcil-Lacoste David A. Wilson
4 Schiller, Hegel, and Marx: 13 Descartes and the
State, Society, and the Aesthetic Enlightenment
Ideal of Ancient Greece Peter A. Schouls
Philip J. Kain
14 Greek Scepticism:
5 John Case and Aristotelianism Anti-Realist Trends
in Renaissance England in Ancient Thought
Charles B. Schmitt Leo Groarke
6 Beyond Liberty and Property: 15 The Irony of Theology and the
The Process of Self- Nature of Religious Thought
Recognition in Eighteenth- Donald Wiebe
Century Political Thought
16 Form and Transformation:
J.A.W. Gunn
A Study in the Philosophy
7 John Toland: His Methods, of Plotinus
Manners, and Mind Frederic M. Schroeder
Stephen H. Daniel
17 From Personal Duties
8 Coleridge and the Inspired towards Personal Rights:
Word Late Medieval and Early
Anthony John Harding Modern Political Thought,
c. 1300–c. 1650
9 The Jena System, 1804–5:
Arthur P. Monahan
Logic and Metaphysics
G.W.F. Hegel 18 The Main Philosophical
Translation edited by Writings and the Novel Allwill
John W. Burbidge and Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
George di Giovanni Translated and edited by
Introduction and notes by George di Giovanni
H.S. Harris
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19 Kierkegaard as Humanist: 28 Enlightenment and
Discovering My Self Community:
Arnold B. Come Lessing, Abbt, Herder, and the
Quest for a German Public
20 Durkheim, Morals,
Benjamin W. Redekop
and Modernity
W. Watts Miller 29 Jacob Burckhardt and
the Crisis of Modernity
21 The Career of Toleration:
John R. Hinde
John Locke, Jonas Proast,
and After 30 The Distant Relation:
Richard Vernon Time and Identity in Spanish-
American Fiction
22 Dialectic of Love:
Eoin S. Thomson
Platonism in Schiller’s
Aesthetics 31 Mr Simson’s Knotty Case:
David Pugh Divinity, Politics, and Due
Process in Early Eighteenth-
23 History and Memory
Century Scotland
in Ancient Greece
Anne Skoczylas
Gordon Shrimpton
32 Orthodoxy and
24 Kierkegaard as Theologian:
Enlightenment:
Recovering My Self
George Campbell in
Arnold B. Come
the Eighteenth Century
25 Enlightenment and Jeffrey M. Suderman
Conservatism in Victorian
33 Contemplation
Scotland:
and Incarnation:
The Career of
The Theology of Marie-
Sir Archibald Alison
Dominique Chenu
Michael Michie
Christophe F. Potworowski
26 The Road to Egdon
34 Democratic Legitimacy:
Heath: The Aesthetics
Plural Values
of the Great in Nature
and Political Power
Richard Bevis
F.M. Barnard
27 Jena Romanticism and Its
35 Herder on Nationality,
Appropriation of Jakob Böhme:
Humanity, and History
Theosophy – Hagiography –
F.M. Barnard
Literature
Paolo Mayer 36 Labeling People:
French Scholars on Society,
Race, and Empire, 1815–1849
Martin S. Staum
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37 The Subaltern Appeal to 46 When the French Tried to
Experience: Self-Identity, Be British:
Late Modernity, and the Party, Opposition, and the
Politics of Immediacy Quest for Civil Disagreement,
Craig Ireland 1814–1848
J.A.W. Gunn
38 The Invention of Journalism
Ethics: The Path to Objectivity 47 Under Conrad’s Eyes:
and Beyond, Second Edition The Novel as Criticism
Stephen J.A. Ward Michael John DiSanto
39 The Recovery of Wonder: 48 Media, Memory, and the First
The New Freedom and World War
the Asceticism of Power David Williams
Kenneth L. Schmitz
49 An Aristotelian Account
40 Reason and Self-Enactment of Induction:
in History and Politics: Creating Something
Themes and Voices of from Nothing
Modernity Louis Groarke
F.M. Barnard
50 Social and Political Bonds:
41 The More Moderate Side of A Mosaic of Contrast
Joseph de Maistre: and Convergence
Views on Political Liberty and F.M. Barnard
Political Economy
51 Archives and the Event of God:
Cara Camcastle
The Impact of Michel Foucault
42 Democratic Society and on Philosophical Theology
Human Needs David Galston
Jeff Noonan
52 Between the Queen and
43 The Circle of Rights Expands: the Cabby:
Modern Political Thought after Olympe de Gouges’s Rights
the Reformation, 1521 of Women
(Luther) to 1762 (Rousseau) John R. Cole
Arthur P. Monahan
53 Nature and Nurture in French
44 The Canadian Founding: Social Sciences, 1859–1914
John Locke and Parliament and Beyond
Janet Ajzenstat Martin S. Staum
45 Finding Freedom: 54 Public Passion:
Hegel’s Philosophy and the Rethinking the Grounds for
Emancipation of Women Political Justice
Sara MacDonald Rebecca Kingston
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55 Rethinking the Political: 65 Imprinting Britain:
The Sacred, Aesthetic Politics, Newspapers, Sociability,
and the Collège de Sociologie and the Shaping of British
Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi North America
Michael Eamon
56 Materialist Ethics and
Life-Value 66 The Form of Politics:
Jeff Noonan Aristotle and Plato
on Friendship
57 Hegel’s Phenomenology:
John von Heyking
The Dialectical Justification of
Philosophy’s First Principles 67 War as Paradox:
Ardis B. Collins Clausewitz and Hegel on
Fighting Doctrines and Ethics
58 The Social History of Ideas
Youri Cormier
in Quebec, 1760–1896
Yvan Lamonde 68 Network Democracy:
Translated by Phyllis Aronoff and Conservative Politics and the
Howard Scott Violence of the Liberal Age
Jared Giesbrecht
59 Ideas, Concepts, and Reality
John W. Burbidge 69 A Singular Case:
Debating China’s Political
60 The Enigma of Perception
Economy in the European
D.L.C. Maclachlan
Enlightenment
61 Nietzsche’s Justice: Ashley Eva Millar
Naturalism in Search of
70 Not Even a God Can Save
an Ethics
Us Now:
Peter R. Sedgwick
Reading Machiavelli after
62 The Idea of Liberty in Canada Heidegger
during the Age of Atlantic Brian Harding
Revolutions, 1776–1838
71 Before Copernicus:
Michel Ducharme
The Cultures and Contexts
Translated by Peter Feldstein
of Scientific Learning in
63 From White to Yellow: the Fifteenth Century
The Japanese in European Edited by Rivka Feldhay
Racial Thought, 1300–1735 and F. Jamil Ragep
Rotem Kowner
72 The Culturalist Challenge
64 The Crisis of Modernity to Liberal Republicanism
Augusto Del Noce Michael Lusztig
Edited and translated by
Carlo Lancellotti
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73 God and Government: 75 Emancipatory Thinking:
Martin Luther’s Political Simone de Beauvoir and
Thought Contemporary Political
Jarrett A. Carty Thought
Elaine Stavro
74 The Age of Secularization
Augusto Del Noce
Edited and Translated
by Carlo Lancellotti
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EMANCIPATORY THINKING
Simone de Beauvoir
and Contemporary
Political Thought
Elaine Stavro
McGill-Queen’s University Press
Montreal & Kingston • London • Chicago
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This book is dedicated to my parents, Sally and Steve (in memoriam).
While they were unfamiliar with continental philosophy,
they instilled the values of hard work and a belief in passionate
engagement that made this book possible.
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