The Philosophy of Simone De Beauvoir

by Simons, Margaret A.

• ISBN13: 9780253218407
• ISBN10: 0253218403
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-05-23
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

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 Beauvoir's philosophical relationship with Sartre; her ethic of the erotic; her views on marriage, motherhood, and female friendship; and her interpretations of oppression and liberation. This book discusses the full range of Beauvoir's work, including The Second Sex, her unpublished diaries, autobiographical writings, novels, and philosophical essays, and broadens the scope and interpretive context of her unique philosophy.Contributors are Nancy Bauer, Debra Bergoffen, Suzanne Laba Cataldi, Edward Fullbrook, Eva Gothlin, Sara Heinämaa, Laura Hengehold, Stacy Keltner, Michèle Le Doeuff, Ann Murphy, Shannon M. Mussett, Margaret A. Simons, Ursula Tidd, Andrea Veltman, Karen Vintges, Julie Ward, Gail Weiss.

Author Biography

Margaret A. Simons is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She is a founding editor of Hypatia and editor of a seven-volume English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's writings.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION	1	(177)
Margaret A. Simons
1. ENGAGING WITH SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR	11	(9)
Michele Le Doeuff
2. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR'S PHENOMENOLOGY OF SEXUAL DIFFERENCE	20	(22)
Sara Heindmaa
3. SHE CAME TO STAYAND BEING AND NOTHINGNESS	42	(23)
Edward Fullbrook
4. BEAUVOI R'S H El DEGGERIAN ONTOLOGY	65	(27)
Nancy Bauer
5. MARRIAGE, AUTONOMY, AND THE FEMININE PROTEST	92	(21)
Debra B. Bergoffen
6. TRANSCENDENCE AND IMMANENCE IN THE ETHICS OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR	113	(19)
Andrea Veltman
7. BEAUVOIR AND SARTRE ON APPEAL, DESIRE, AND AMBIGUITY	132	(14)
Eva Gothlin
8. RECIPROCITY AND FRIENDSHIP IN BEAUVOIR'S THOUGHT	146	(17)
Julie K Ward
9. SEXUALITY SITUATED: BEAUVOIR ON 'FRIGIDITY"	163	(15)
Suzanne Laba Cataldi
10. BEAUVOIR'S PARRHESIASTIC CONTRACTS: FRANK-SPEAKING AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL-POLITICAL COUPLE	178	(23)
Laura Hengebold
11. BEAUVOIR'S IDEA OF AMBIGUITY	201	(13)
Stacy Keltner
12. SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR: A FEMINISITHINKER FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY	214	(14)
Karen Vintges
13. THE SELF-OTHER RELATION IN BEAUVOIR'S ETHICS AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY	228	(13)
Ursula Tidd
14. CHALLENGING CHOICES: AN ETHIC OF OPPRESSION	241	(21)
Gail Weiss
15. BETWEEN GENEROSITY AND VIOLENCE: TOWARD A REVOLUTIONARY POLITICS IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR	262	(14)
Ann V. Murphy
16. CONDITIONS OF SERVITUDE: WOMAN'S PECULIAR ROLE IN THE MASTER-SLAVE DIALECTIC IN BEAUVOIR'S THE SECOND SEX	276	(19)
Shannon M Mussett
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS	295	(4)
INDEX	299