Philosophy of Simone De Beauvoir - Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance

Informationen zum Autor Penelope Deutscher is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. Prior to this role, she taught in the department of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Professor Deutscher is a member of several distinguished associations, including the American Philosophical Association, the International Association of Philosophy and Literature, and the Society for Women in Philosophy. Klappentext A study of Beauvoir's work on 'otherness' through the concepts of gender, race, and ageing. Zusammenfassung Professor Deutscher studies Beauvoir's philosophy on 'otherness' not just through her famous views on gender (in her celebrated 1949 work The Second Sex)! but also through her less documented ideas on race and on ageing and generational difference. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Simone de Beauvoir's conversions; 1. Conversions of ambiguity; 2. American bad faith; 3. Conversions of repetition; 4. Conversions of alterity: race, sex, age; 5. Conversions of reciprocity; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Penelope Deutscher, Penelope (Professor Deutscher
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2008
• EAN: 9780521885201
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88520-1
• No. of pages: 222
• Series: Ideas in Context; Ideas in Context
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day