The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir
Subtitle: ambiguity, conversion, resistance
By: Penelope Deutscher.
Series: Ideas in context -- 90
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
ISBN-13: 9780521885201
Subjects: Beauvoir, Simone de, -- 1908-1986
Description: "Many studies of Simone de Beauvoir have concentrated on her literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work The Second Sex. The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir places Beauvoir's theory of women's "otherness" in the context of a number of contemporary theories of ambiguity. Professor Deutscher reconsiders the resources on which Beauvoir drew and the innovation involved in their transformation to her purposes." "The focus given Beauvoir's philosophy on gender and thus to her earliest work has overlooked the transformations she affected to her own concepts of ambiguity, reciprocity, and ethics as she considered different modes of otherness. Gender was just one of a number of these, and this book counterbalances its grip on our memory of her work by situating gender in the context of embodied time, ageing, generational differences, and race. By differentiating these aspects of otherness, Beauvoir revisited some of the concepts of reciprocity and ethics for which she is best remembered."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes index.