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Simone de Beauvoir

By Karen Green

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2022
ISBN
1009011782, 9781009011785
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1065693 bytes)
Series
Elements on Women in the History of Philosophy
Pages
75\76
Time added
2023-01-16 09:43:23

Description

Tracing her intellectual development from her university years, when she was trained in a Cartesian and neo-Kantian philosophical tradition, to her final decade, during which she was recognised as having inspired the emerging strands of late twentieth-century feminism, Beauvoir is shown to have been among the most influential philosophical voices of the mid twentieth century. Countering the recent trend to read her in isolation from Sartre, she is shown to have both adopted, adapted, and influenced his philosophy, most importantly through encouraging him to engage with Hegel and to consider our relations with others. The Second Sex is read in the light of her existentialist humanism and ultimately faulted for having succumbed too uncritically to the masculine myth that it is men who are solely responsible for society's intellectual and cultural history. Cover Title page Copyright page Simone de Beauvoir Contents 1 Beauvoir before Sartre 2 Sartre and the Discovery of Hegel 3 The Second Sex 4 Autobiography and Politics 5 Beauvoir’s Impact List of Abbreviations of Works by Beauvoir References

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