In her splendid introduction to this new edition, Judith Thurman notes that Blanche Knopf, wife of Beauvoir’s American publisher, heard about the book on a scouting trip to France and was under the impression that it was a highbrow sex manual. Knopf asked for a reader’s report from a retired zoologist, Howard M. Parshley, who was then commissioned to do the translation. Knopf’s husband urged Parshley to condense it significantly, noting that Beauvoir seemed to suffer from “verbal diarrhea.” Parshley complied, providing the necessary Imodium by cutting 15 percent of the original 972 pages. And so it was this truncated text, translated by a scientist with a college undergraduate’s knowledge of French, that ushered two generations of women into the universe of feminist thought, inspiring pivotal later books like Betty Friedan’s “Feminine Mystique” and Kate Millett’s “Sexual Politics.”

via Book Review Preview – Book Review – The Second Sex – By Simone de Beauvoir – NYTimes.com.

The rest

The Pregnancy of the Real: A Phenomenological Defense of Experimental Realism, Pages 1 – 25
Author: Shannon Vallor

Knowledge, Freedom and Willing: Hegel on Subjective Spirit, Pages 26 – 52
Author: Damion Buterin

Between Internalism and Externalism: Husserl’s Account of Intentionality, Pages 53 – 78
Author: Lilian Alweiss

Mental Capacity and Decisional Autonomy: An Interdisciplinary Challenge, Pages 79 – 107
Authors: Gareth S. Owen; Fabian Freyenhagen; Genevra Richardson; Matthew Hotopf

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Foucault Live

What Schopenhauer taught Beckett

Todd, Cain (2007) Aesthetic, Ethical, and Cognitive Value.

Schoeman, Marinus (2007) Generosity as a central virtue in Nietzsche’s ethics.

Olivier, Bert (2007) Nietzsche, immortality, singularity and eternal recurrence.

Kotzee, Ben (2007) Our Vision and our Mission: Bullshit, Assertion and Belief.

Tännsjö, Torbjörn (2007) Social Psychology and the Paradox of Revolution.

Hurst, Andrea (2007) Supposing Truth is a Woman – What Then?

The journal website: http://www.kritike.org
Current issue: http://www.kritike.org/Current_Issue.html
Call for papers: http://www.kritike.org/Call_for_Papers.html

KRITIKE VOLUME TWO NUMBER ONE (JUNE 2008)

1. Editorial: Marking the First Year of KRITIKE: An Online Journal of Philosophy – The Editor

Articles:

2. Interruptions: Derrida and Hospitality – Mark W. Westmoreland

3. Iris Murdoch’s The Bell: Tragedy, Love, and Religion – Kenneth Masong

4. ‘To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die?’ – Saitya Brata Das

5. A Comparative Study on the Theme of Human Existence in the Novels of Albert Camus and F. Sionil Jose – F. P. A. Demeterio

6. The War on Concepts: The Thought of Jan Patocka and the War on Terror – Katy Scrogin

7. Mass Mentality, Culture Industry, Fascism – Saladdin Said Ahmed

8. The Causal Relevance and Heterogeneity of Program Explanations in the Face of Explanatory Exclusion – Wilson Cooper

9. A Freewheeling Defense of Kant’s Resolution of the Third Antinomy – Todd D. Janke

10. The Structures of Perception: An Ecological Perspective – Michael James Braund

Book Reviews :

11. Powell, Jason, Jacques Derrida: A Biography – Marko Zlomislic

12. Evans, C. Stephen, Kierkegaard on Faith and the Self: Collected Essays – Robert C. Cheeks

13. Drake, David, Sartre and Bernasconi, Robert, How to Read Sartre – Marella Ada Mancenido

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And Critique de la raison dialectique (both volumes)