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Wartime Philosophy: Camus, Beauvoir and the French Resistance

Pages 326-336 | Published online: 21 Oct 2014

References

  • Albert Camus, Camus at Combat, ed. Jacqueline Lévi-Valnesi, trans. Arthur Goldhammer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
  • David Carroll, “Foreword,” in Combat, vii–xxvi.
  • Ibid., xi, xv.
  • Camus, “Underground No. 56, April 1944,” in Combat, 3.
  • Carroll, “Foreword,”, xv.
  • Camus, “January 5, 1945,” in Combat, 164.
  • Tony Judt, The Burden of Responsibility. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998, 93.
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Diary of a Philosophy Student, eds. Barbara Klaw, Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir and Margaret A. Simons. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006.
  • Beauvoir, Diary, 55.
  • Simone de Beauvoir, Wartime Diary, eds. Margaret A. Simons and Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2009.
  • Ibid., 13.
  • Ibid., 37–8.
  • Simone de Beauvoir, A Very Easy Death. New York: Pantheon, 1965. This work, sometimes overlooked, is important for its detailed description of the objectification provided by encounters with mortality.
  • Beauvoir, Wartime, 85. (Entry for October 3, 1939).
  • Albert Camus, The Rebel, trans. Albert Bower. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1953, 180.
  • Albert Camus, The Plague. New York: Vintage, 1964.
  • Judt, Burden, 123–4. Judt writes, “Central to Camus's politics, and to his pleas for measure in all things, was his growing awareness of the sheer complexity of the world, or rather the worlds in which humans must live.”, 124.
  • Ibid., 123–4.
  • Hazel Rowley, Tete-a-Tete. New York: Harper Perennial, 2006, 121–2.
  • Margaret Simons, “Introduction,” Wartime, 2–3.
  • Simons covers these issues in more than one section of her “Introduction.” Very important material on these issues is found from roughly on pp. 18–33.
  • Beauvoir, Wartime, 311. (Entry for July 14, 1940.)
  • Rowley, Tete, 122.
  • Judt goes into detail on the myth-making of the French Resistance in his Past Imperfect. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992. See, for example, 45ff.
  • Judt, Past, 31.
  • An important new work on Weil's work during this period is Marie Cabaud Meaney, Simone Weil's Apologetic Use of Literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
  • Ibid., 2.
  • Judt, Past, 26–44. The title of the chapter with details on this part of the French overview is “In the Light of Experience.”
  • Ibid., 84.
  • The adolescent diaries, for example, are filled with pages of quotations from Schopenhauer and remarks about the “incommunicable self.” (Beauvoir, Diary, 252–4.)
  • Simons remarks that this decision made her father quite angry. (Beauvoir, Diary, 32–3.)
  • Beauvoir, Wartime, 12.
  • Meaney, Apologetic, 138.
  • Again, Judt, in Burden, is quite specific about the length of time it took Camus to work out his views.
  • Vance G. Morgan, Weaving the World, Notre Dame: Univesity of Notre Dame Press, 2005, ix–x.

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