Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler
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Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

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Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

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Despite a deep familiarity with the philosophical tradition and despite the groundbreaking influence of her own work, Simone de Beauvoir never embraced the idea of herself as a philosopher. Her legacy is similarly complicated. She is acclaimed as a revolutionary thinker on issues of gender, age, and oppression, but although much has been written weighing the influence she and Jean-Paul Sartre had on one another, the extent and sophistication of her engagement with the Western tradition broadly goes mostly unnoticed. This volume turns the spotlight on exactly that, examining Beauvoir's dialogue with her influences and contemporaries, as well as her impact on later thinkers—concluding with an autobiographical essay by bell hooks discussing the influence of Beauvoir's philosophy and life on her own work and career. These innovative essays both broaden our understanding of Beauvoir and suggest new ways of understanding canonical figures through the lens of her work.

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Publisher
SUNY Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781438444567
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
Philosophy History & Theory

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Editors' Introduction
  4. The Literary Grounding of Metaphysics: Beauvoir and Plato on Philosophical Fiction
  5. Existence, Freedom, and the Festival: Rousseau and Beauvoir
  6. A Different Kind of Universality: Beauvoir and Kant on Universal Ethics
  7. Simone de Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade: Contesting the Logic of Sovereignty and the Politics of Terror and Rape
  8. Beauvoir and Marx
  9. Saving Time: Temporality, Recurrence, and Transcendence in Beauvoir's Nietzschean Cycles
  10. Beauvoir and Husserl: An Unorthodox Approach to The Second Sex
  11. Beauvoir and Bergson: A Question of Influence
  12. Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty: Philosophers of Ambiguity
  13. From Beauvoir to Irigaray: Making Meaning out of Maternity
  14. Ambiguity and Precarious Life: Tracing Beauvoir's Legacy in the Work of Judith Butler
  15. True Philosophers: Beauvoir and bell
  16. Contributors