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"[...]a nuanced, readable account of the affinities between Woolf's and Heidegger's representations of the interplay between self and world. Simone is particularly attentive to the ways in which Woolf departs from Heidegger, contrasting her alertness to the systems of power that structure the individual's existence in the world with Heidegger's apolitical philosophy.-- ""The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 98, Issue 1, 2019"" This existential-phenomenological text shows an excellent understanding and critical insight of Woolfian scholarship with a high degree of competence of Heideggerian philosophy as its lens for critical analysis--Jason Wakefield, University of Cambridge ""Avello Publishing Journal"" In this insightful, carefully researched and accessible study, Emma Simone provides the first sustained comparative analysis of Woolf's and Heidegger's accounts of Being-in-the-world. Effortlessly weaving together readings and examples from Woolf's novels, essays and autobiographical writings, Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world not only comprises an important addition to scholarly assessments of Woolf's philosophical thought, but demonstrates with great acuity the vital ways in which Woolf's philosophy is fundamentally tied to her social and political concerns and commitments.--Lorraine Sim, Western Sydney University"

[...]a nuanced, readable account of the affinities between Woolf's and Heidegger's representations of the interplay between self and world. Simone is particularly attentive to the ways in which Woolf departs from Heidegger, contrasting her alertness to the systems of power that structure the individual's existence in the world with Heidegger's apolitical philosophy.-- ""The Year's Work in English Studies, Volume 98, Issue 1, 2019"" This existential-phenomenological text shows an excellent understanding and critical insight of Woolfian scholarship with a high degree of competence of Heideggerian philosophy as its lens for critical analysis--Jason Wakefield, University of Cambridge ""Avello Publishing Journal"" In this insightful, carefully researched and accessible study, Emma Simone provides the first sustained comparative analysis of Woolf's and Heidegger's accounts of Being-in-the-world. Effortlessly weaving together readings and examples from Woolf's novels, essays and autobiographical writings, Virginia Woolf and Being-in-the-world not only comprises an important addition to scholarly assessments of Woolf's philosophical thought, but demonstrates with great acuity the vital ways in which Woolf's philosophy is fundamentally tied to her social and political concerns and commitments.--Lorraine Sim, Western Sydney University

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Emma Simone completed her PhD on Virginia Woolf at Macquarie University in 2012 and is currently an independent scholar. Her research interests include the influence of ancient Greek literature and philosophy upon the writings of Woolf and Heidegger.

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