The Cambridge Companion to Simone de BeauvoirClaudia Card Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this volume examine the major aspects of her thought including her views on the role of biology, sexuality and sexual difference, and evil, as well as the influence on her work of Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Husserl, and others, and the philosophical significance of her memoirs and fiction. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Beauvoirs place in philosophical thought | 24 |
Reading Simone de Beauvoir with Martin Heidegger | 45 |
The body as instrument and as expression | 66 |
Beauvoir and MerleauPonty on ambiguity | 87 |
Bergsons influence on Beauvoirs philosophical methodology | 107 |
Philosophy in Beauvoirs fiction | 129 |
Complicity and slavery in The Second Sex | 149 |
Beauvoir and feminism interview and reflections | 189 |
Lifestory in Beauvoirs memoirs | 208 |
Beauvoir on the ambiguity of evil | 228 |
Simone de Beauvoir Recounting the sexual difference | 248 |
Beauvoir and biology a second look | 266 |
Beauvoirs Old Age | 286 |
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