Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation The Problem of The Second Sex

by Hengehold, Laura

• ISBN13: 9781474418874
• ISBN10: 1474418872
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2017-10-01
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Author Biography

Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. She is the author of The Body Problematic: Political Imagination in Kant and Foucault (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007) and the translator and editor of Law and the African Public Sphere: La Palabre and Other Writings by Jean Godefroy Bidima (Indiana University Press, 2013).

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Blocked Singularities
Phenomenology
Sense and the Event
Historicity of the Problem

2. The Problem of Sexist Sense
Representation and the Creation of Concepts
Transcendence
Conceptual personae and the Prephilosophical Plane

3. Lived Experience
Consciousness and habit
Varieties of Immanence
Maternity
Work
Narcissism, Love, and Mysticism

4. The Freedom of Others
Pyrrhus and Cineas
The Ethics of Ambiguity
Communication and Recognition
Transindividuality
Back to Mitsein

5. Territories and Assemblages
Philosophy and Literary Problems
Ambiguities of sex
Universal or Just Common?

6. Virtual Conflicts
Ethics and Politics from the Milieu
Equal how?
Whose History? Which Event?
What can Institutions do?

7. Conclusion

Works Cited
Index