Beauvoir and Sartre : the riddle of influence / edited by Christine Daigle and Jacob Golomb.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Daigle, Christine, 1967-

Golomb, Jacob.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986.

Beauvoir, Simone de.

Sartre, Jean-Paul, 1905-1980.

Sartre, Jean-Paul.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul Sartre still have not been settled definitively. Some continue to believe Beauvoir's own claim that Sartre was the philosopher and she was the follower even though their relationship was far more complex than this proposition suggests. Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb, and an international group of scholars explore the philosophical and literary relationship between Beauvoir and Sartre in this penetrating volume. Did each elaborate a philosophy of his or her own? Did they share a single philosophy? Did the ideas of each have an impact on the other? How did influences develop and what was their nature? Who influenced whom most of all? A crisscrossed picture of mutual intricacies and significant differences emerges from the skillful and sophisticated exchange that takes place here.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Getting the Beauvoir We Deserve

2. Where Influence Fails: Embodiment in Beauvoir and Sartre

3. The Question of Reciprocal Self-Abandon to the Other: Beauvoir's Influence on Sartre

4. Beauvoir and Sartre on Freedom, Intersubjectivity, and Normative Justification

5. Sartre and Beauvoir on Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic and the Question of the "Look"

6. Beauvoir, Sartre, and Patriarchy's History of Ideas

7. Psychoanalysis of Things: Objective Meanings or Subjective Projections?

8. Beauvoir, Sartre, and the Problem of Alterity

9. Moving beyond Sartre: Constraint and Judgment in Beauvoir's"Moral Essays" and The Mandarins

10. Simone de Beauvoir's "Marguerite" as a Possible Source of Inspiration for Jean-Paul Sartre's "The Childhood of a Leader"

11. Taking a Distance: Exploring Some Points of Divergence between Beauvoir and Sartre

12. Anne, ou quand prime le spirituel: Beauvoir and Sartre Interact- from Parody, Satire, and Tragedy to Manifesto of Liberation

13. The Concept of Transcendence in Beauvoir and Sartre

14. Freedom F/Or the Other

Bibliography

List of Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.

ISBN:

0-253-00283-4

9786612103490

1-282-10349-0

OCLC:

456423492