The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir : critical essays / edited by Margaret A. Simons.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Simons, Margaret A.

Series:

Hypatia book.

Hypatia

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Since her death in 1986 and the publication of her letters and diaries in 1990, interest in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir has never been greater. In this engaging and timely volume, Margaret A. Simons and an international group of philosophers present 16 essays that reveal Beauvoir as one of the century's most important and influential thinkers. As they set Beauvoir's work into dialogue with Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Foucault, Levinas, and others, these essays consider questions such as

Contents:

Cover; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; 1. ENGAGING WITH SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR; 2. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SEXUAL DIFFERENCE; 3. SHE CAME TO STAY AND BEING AND NOTHINGNESS; 4. BEAUVOIR'S HEIDEGGERIAN ONTOLOGY; 5. MARRIAGE, AUTONOMY, AND THE FEMININE PROTEST; 6. TRANSCENDENCE AND IMMANENCE IN THE ETHICS OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR; 7. BEAUVOIR AND SARTRE ON APPEAL, DESIRE, AND AMBIGUITY; 8. RECIPROCITY AND FRIENDSHIP IN BEAUVOIR'S THOUGHT; 9. SEXUALITY SITUATED: BEAUVOIRON "FRIGIDITY"; 10. BEAUVOIR'S PARRHESIASTIC CONTRACTS:FRANK-SPEAKING AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL POLITICAL COUPLE

11. BEAUVOIR'S IDEA OF AMBIGUITY 12. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: A FEMINIST THINKER FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY; 13. THE SELF-OTHER RELATION IN BEAUVOIR'S ETHICS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY; 14. CHALLENGING CHOICES: AN ETHIC OF OPPRESSION; 15. BETWEEN GENEROSITY AND VIOLENCE: TOWARD ARE VOLUTIONARY POLITICS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR; 16. CONDITIONS OF SERVITUDE: WOMAN'S PECULIAR ROLE IN THE MASTER-SLAVE DIALECTIC IN BEAUVOIR'S THE SECOND SEX; List of Contributors; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-07295-1

0-253-11216-8

OCLC:

476041438