Laura Hengehold presents a new, Deleuzian reading of Simone de Beauvoir's phenomenology, the place of recognition in The Second Sex, the philosophical issues in her novels and the important role of ...her student diaries.
Most studies of Simone de Beauvoir situate her with respect to Hegel and the tradition of 20th-century phenomenology begun by Husserl and Heidegger, and often stress the importance of Hegel's struggle for recognition. Hengehold, in comparison, reads de Beauvoir through a Deleuzian lens, and looks at de Beauvoir's early interest in Bergson and Leibniz.
Hengehold clarifies the elements of Deleuze's thought - alone and in collaboration with Guattari - that may be most useful to contemporary feminists who are simultaneously rethinking the becoming of gender and the becoming of philosophy.
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up ...three aspects of Beauvoir's work more recent feminists find embarrassing: "bad sex," "dated" views about lesbians, and intersections with race and class. Through close reading of Beauvoir's writing in many genres, alongside contemporaneous discourses (good and bad novels in French and English, outmoded psychoanalytic and sexological authorities, ethnographic surrealism, the writing of Richard Wright and Franz Fanon), and in light of her travels to the U.S. and China, the author uncovers insights more recent feminist methodologies obscure, showing that Beauvoir is still good to think with today.
The paper aims to contribute to the ongoing conversation on critical phenomenology with reflections on its method. The key argument is that critical phenomenology should be understood as a form of ...historico‐transcendental inquiry and therefore it cannot forgo the phenomenological reduction. Rather, this methodological step should be centered in critical phenomenology, and appropriated in problematized and rethought forms. The methodological assessment of critical phenomenology has implications also for how we read its canon. The paper shows that while Simone de Beauvoir did not adopt the phenomenological reduction in its full Husserlian meaning, her analyses of experience did not remain on the level of personal or experiential description either. The contention is that if we want to read her as a critical phenomenologist, we should focus on her seminal modification of the historico‐transcendental method of phenomenology.
Freedom and Agency in The Second Sex Langley, Harvey
European journal of philosophy,
March 2024, 2024-03-00, 20240301, Letnik:
32, Številka:
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Successive generations of scholars have been hugely effective at challenging the once-common dismissal of Beauvoir's philosophy and the view that her work was a mere application of “Sartre's ...existentialism”. But while the originality and significance of Beauvoir's philosophical contributions are now widely acknowledged, there remains a series of foundational debates concerning The Second Sex and the precise nature of Beauvoir's intellectual relationship with Sartre. Although there is little consensus on this last point, it is increasingly common for scholars to distance Beauvoir's feminism from Sartre's early existentialism, especially his theory of existential freedom in Being and Nothingness. This partially derives from an enduring and widespread consensus that Sartre's early theory of freedom is fundamentally insensitive to the empirical realities of oppressive situations and therefore inimical to feminism.In this paper, I argue that the essence of Beauvoir's theory of freedom in The Second Sex is broadly consistent with Sartre's in Being and Nothingness, but that Beauvoir makes some major advances on Sartre by properly developing the relationship between freedom and power, resulting in a compelling existentialist framework for agency that significantly increases the viability of existentialism as a normative philosophy. I aim to demonstrate that recognising the foundational consistencies between Beauvoir's philosophy and Sartre's existentialism by no means detracts from Beauvoir's originality and intellectual independence, but rather champions it by allowing us to appreciate some of the most original and insightful features of The Second Sex and its role in the development of existentialism.
Simone de Beauvoir's work has not often been associated with film studies, which appears paradoxical when it is recognized that she was the first feminist thinker to inaugurate the concept of the ...gendered 'othering' gaze. This book is an attempt to redress this balance and reopen the dialogue between Beauvoir's writings and film studies. The authors analyse a range of films, from directors including Claire Denis, Michael Haneke, Lucille Hadzihalilovic, Sam Mendes, and Sally Potter, by drawing from Beauvoir's key works such asThe Second Sex(1949),The Ethics of Ambiguity(1947) andOld Age(1970).
Abstract We identify a dilemma currently faced by designers and design researchers concerning how best to use the influential nature of design to change people's behavior in a way that benefits ...society. This dilemma exists because, even though designers can create products that can exercise control over individual freedom, such products are made necessary because people seem resistant to sacrifice their freedom for the good of society. Various approaches have arisen to respond to this dilemma—ranging from the technocratic to the democratic with “libertarian paternalism” somewhere in between—but we have found that they all share a paternalistic way of treating individual freedom as a “barrier” to be overcome to achieve social goals, such as sustainability, crime reduction, public health, and social justice. Instead of tackling this issue head-on, this interdisciplinary work challenges this dilemma and, drawing from the ethics of Simone de Beauvoir, argues that freedom is not merely a value to be weighed against other values in design practices but is instead the basis of all moral values.
This essay analyzes the educational significance of the metaphysical novel, that is, how it can be used to educate ourselves and our students. Mordechai Gordon begins by describing the nature of the ...metaphysical novel while contrasting it to "pure" philosophy and theory building. Gordon also situates Beauvoir's insights in the broader context of the ongoing conversation on philosophy and literature. In the next part, he examines Beauvoir's philosophy of lived experience and compare her philosophical approach to more traditional phenomenological theories. From the analysis of Beauvoir's philosophy of lived experience, Gordon turns to explore the role that ambiguity, contingency, and complexity play in helping us make sense of people's lives while drawing on examples from several metaphysical novels to illustrate these notions. He concludes this essay by reflecting on the question: what can the study of metaphysical novels bring to philosophy of education?
Body of thought Ditum, Sarah
The Lancet (British edition),
05/2019, Letnik:
393, Številka:
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Traction, surgeries, and aspiration (“a name that suggests hopefulness, but yielded no results”) were all tried. Since she grew up Catholic in 1980s Ireland, faith was tried too, and it too failed. ......Mother is the story of Gleeson's Aunt Terry and her descent into dementia. Constellations' name comes from the metal implants that repaired her hip joint: she has come to think of them as “artificial stars, glistening beneath the skin”, and it's an apt title for a book that shines with intelligence and life.
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