Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

by Mussett, Shannon M.; Wilkerson, William S.

• ISBN13: 9781438444550
• ISBN10: 1438444559
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-12-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Essays on Beauvoir's influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.

Author Biography

Shannon M. Mussett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University. She is the coeditor (with Sally J. Scholz) of The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins, also published by SUNY Press. William S. Wilkerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Ambiguity and Sexuality: A Theory of Sexual Identity and the coeditor (with Jeffrey Paris) of New Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Editor's Introduction	p. 1
The Literary Grounding of Metaphysics: Beauvoir and Plato on Philosophical Fiction	p. 15
Existence, Freedom, and the Festival: Rousseau and Beauvoir	p. 35
A Different Kind of Universality: Beauvoir and Kant on Universal Ethics	p. 55
Simone de Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade: Contesting the Logic of Sovereignty and the Politics of Terror and Rape	p. 75
Beauvoir and Marx	p. 91
Saving Time: Temporality, Recurrence, and Transcendence in Beauvoir's Nietzschean Cycles	p. 103
Beauvoir and Husserl: An Unorthodox Approach to The Second Sex	p. 125
Beauvoir and Bergson: A Question of Influence	p. 153
Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty: Philosophers of Ambiguity	p. 171
From Beauvoir to Irigaray: Making Meaning out of Maternity	p. 191
Ambiguity and Precarious Life: Tracing Beauvoir's Legacy in the Work of Judith Butler	p. 211
True Philosophers: Beauvoir and bell	p. 227
Contributors	p. 237
Index	p. 241
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