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