The Cambridge companion to Simone de Beauvoir / edited by Claudia Card.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Card, Claudia.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Local Subjects:

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Physical Description:

xxiv, 336 pages ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Simone de Beauvoir

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers contains specially commissioned essays by an international team of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced with the work of a difficult and challenging thinker.

Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this volume examine all the major aspects of her thought, including her views on the role of biology, on sexuality and sexual difference, and on evil; the influence on her work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and others; and the philosophical significance of her memoirs and fiction. New readers and nonspecialists will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Beauvoir currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Beauvoir.

Contents:

1 Beauvoir's place in philosophical thought / Barbara S. Andrew 24

2 Reading Simone de Beauvoir with Martin Heidegger / Eva Gothlin 45

3 The body as instrument and as expression / Sara Heinamaa 66

4 Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on ambiguity / Monika Langer 87

5 Bergson's influence on Beauvoir's philosophical methodology / Margaret A. Simons 107

6 Philosophy in Beauvoir's fiction / Mary Sirridge 129

7 Complicity and slavery in The Second Sex / Susan James 149

8 Beauvoir on Sade: making sexuality into an ethic / Judith Butler 168

9 Beauvoir and feminism: interview and reflections / Susan J. Brison 189

10 Life-story in Beauvoir's memoirs / Miranda Fricker 208

11 Beauvoir on the ambiguity of evil / Robin May Schott 228

12 Simone de Beauvoir: (Re)counting the sexual difference / Debra B. Bergoffen 248

13 Beauvoir and biology: a second look / Moira Gatens 266

14 Beauvoir's Old Age / Penelope Deutscher 286.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-319) and index.

ISBN:

0521790964

0521790263

0521794293

OCLC:

49627737

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