MONTREAL DIALOGUE: Emancipatory Thinking

Henry F. Hall Building (Concordia University), 1455 Boulevard de Maisonneuve O, Montreal, QC
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Elaine Stavro, author of Emancipatory Thinking: Simone de Beauvoir and Contemporary Political Thought, will speak at Concordia University's Philosophy Speaker Series. She will be joined by Shawn Huberdeau, Bayonne Said, and Mädchen Specht for a discussion on her book. The event is offered by the Department of Philosophy.

ABOUT THE BOOK

Most scholars have focused on The Second Sex and Simone de Beauvoir's fiction, concentrating on gender issues but ignoring her broader emancipatory vision. Though Beauvoir's political thinking is not as closely studied as her feminist works, it underpinned her activism and helped her navigate the dilemmas raised by revolutionary thought in the postwar period. In Emancipatory Thinking Elaine Stavro brings together Beauvoir's philosophy and her political interventions to produce complex ideas on emancipation.

Elaine Stavro is associate professor of political studies at Trent University.