How to Be You
Simone de Beauvoir and the art of authentic living
$31.43
- Paperback
336 pages
- Release Date
16 August 2022
Summary
Skye Cleary blends Simone de Beauvoir’s wisdom with her own in this lively guide to becoming a poet of your life - Nigel Warburton
It isn’t easy to be authentic. Skye Cleary’s How to Be You is the guide you need if you are serious about figuring out how to live a life truly worth living. And why wouldn’t you? - Massimo Pigliucci, author of How to Be a Stoic
A glorious achievement - Irish Independent
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Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781529106473 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1529106478 |
| Author: | Skye Cleary |
| Publisher: | Ebury Publishing |
| Imprint: | Ebury Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 336 |
| Release Date: | 16 August 2022 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 26mm x 137mm x 216mm |
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Critics Review
Balanced with elements of critique, Skye Cleary delivers Simone de Beauvoir’s views on authenticity with matchless clarity. In this elegantly written text, abstract ideas are embodied with compelling stories from either or both Beauvoir’s life or that of the author. This coupling of the ethereal and earthly injects How to Be Authentic with a delightful resonance of authenticity that helps to bring home Beauvoir’s bounty of existential wisdom. * Gordon Marino, author of The Existentialist’s Survival Guide *
How To Be You is a thrilling invitation to reconsider all our ways of seeing and being - how to parent, how to love, how to age, how to connect. It is a book like the best kind of conversation. We are in the company of not just one brilliant woman, but two. Skye Cleary is a wonderful guide to de Beauvoir’s work, while also bringing her own wisdom to our present moment. Fascinating. Necessary. * Tanya Shadrick, author of The Cure For Sleep *
A how-to handbook for today’s crazy times with philosophy past and present…a glorious achievement * Irish Independent *
Skye Cleary
Dr. Skye C. Cleary is a philosopher and writer. She teaches at Columbia University, Barnard College, and the City University of New York, and is the author of Existentialism and Romantic Love and co-editor of How to Live a Good Life. Cleary’s writing has appeared in The Paris Review, Aeon, The Times Literary Supplement, TED-Ed, and The Los Angeles Review of Books, among other outlets. She won the 2017 New Philosopher Writers’ Award and was a 2021 MacDowell Fellow. She lives in New York City with her partner and son.
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