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While earlier research considered Simone de Beauvoir in the perspectives of Existentialism or Feminism, this work emphasizes her reflective and descriptive approach and the full range of issues she addresses. There are chapters and sections that are historical and/or comparative, but most of the contents of this work critically examine Beauvoir's views on old age, biology, gender, ethics, ethnicity, and politics. Besides their systematic as well as historical significance, these chapters show her philosophy as on a par with those of Merleau-Ponty and Jean-Paul Sartre in quality, richness and distinctiveness of problematics, and the penetration of her insight into collective as well as individual human life within the socio-historical world.

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Author:   Wendy O'Brien ,  Lester Embree
Publisher:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Imprint:   Kluwer Academic Publishers
Edition:   2001 ed.
Volume:   43
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.260kg
ISBN:  

9780792370642

ISBN 10:   0792370643
Pages:   263
Publication Date:   31 August 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1 The Beginnings of Beauvoir’s Existential Phenomenology.- 2 Simone de Beauvoir’s Existential Phenomenology and Philosophy of History in Le Deuxième Sexe.- 3 Beauvoir and Plato: The Clinic and the Cave.- 4 A Saraband of Imagery: The Uses of Biological Science in Le Deuxième Sexe.- 5 The Body as a Basis for Being: Simone de Beauvoir and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.- 6 For the Time Being: Simone de Beauvoir’s Representation of Temporality.- 7 The Lived Experience of Doubling: Simone de Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Old Age.- 8 Phenomenology and the Ethical Bases of Pluralism: Arendt and Beauvoir on Race in the United States.- 9 Beauvoir as Situated Subject: The Ambiguities of Life in World War II France.- 10 Between the Ethical and the Political: The Difference of Ambiguity.- Simone de Beauvoir and Existential Phenomenology: A Bibliography.- Notes on Contributors.

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