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The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance

By Penelope Deutscher

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2008
ISBN
0521885205, 9780521885201, 9780511424403
LCC
B2430.B344 D48 2008
Open Library ID
OL16427661M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1730117 bytes)
Series
Ideas in Context
Edition
1
Pages
223\223
Library
avaxhome.ws
Time added
2010-05-31 15:29:46

Description

Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentrated on her literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work, The Second Sex, and the continued emphasis has been on Beauvoir's views on gender. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir places her theory of women's ''otherness'' in the context of a number of contemporary theories on a similar subject. While gender takes its place among these, Professor Deutscher counterbalances its grip on our memory of Beauvoir's ideas by situating it in the context of our relationship to ageing, to generational difference, and to race and cultural difference. By differentiating the many aspects of ''otherness,'' Beauvoir revisited some of the concepts of reciprocity, ambiguity, and ethics for which she is best remembered.

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