Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism

Name: Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism
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ISBN: 9780231116640

ISBN-10: 0231116640

ISBN-13: 9780231116640

Edition: 2001

Authors: Nancy Bauer

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In the introduction to The Second Sex,Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sexdramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem. This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, The Second Sex.Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the development of contemporary feminist philosophy, constitutes a meditation on the relationship between…

Book details

List price: $115.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 7/4/2001
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

Nancy Bauer is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Academic Affairs for Arts and Sciences at Tufts University.



acknowledgments


Introduction: Recounting Woman



Is Feminist Philosophy a Contradiction in Terms? First Philosophy, the Second Sex, and the Third Wave



I Am a Woman, Therefrom I Think: the Second Sex and the Meditations



The Truth of Self-Certainty: a Rendering of Hegel's Master-Slave Dialectic



The Conditions of Hell: Sartre on Hegel



Reading Beauvoir Reading Hegel: Pyrrhus et Cinï¿½as and the Ethics of Ambiguity



The Second Sex and the Master-Slave Dialectic



The Struggle for Self in the Second Sex


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