Cambridge Companion to Simone De Beauvoir

Informationen zum Autor Claudia Card is Emma Goldman Professor at the Department of Philosophy, University of Wisconsin, Madison. Klappentext A convenient and accessible guide to Simone de Beauvoir, published in 2003. Zusammenfassung 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 2003 volume examine all the major aspects of her thought. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Claudia Card; 1. Beauvoir's place in philosophical thought Barbara S. Andrew; 2. Reading Simone de Beauvoir with Martin Heidegger Eva Gothlin; 3. The body as instrument and as expression Sara Heinämaa; 4. Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on ambiguity Monika Langer; 5. Bergson's influence on Beauvoir's philosophical methodology Margaret A. Simons; 6. Philosophy in Beauvoir's fiction Mary Sirridge; 7. Complicity and slavery in The Second Sex Susan James; 8. Beauvoir on Sade: making sexuality into an ethic Judith Butler; 9. Beauvoir and feminism: interview and reflections Susan J. Brison; 10. Life-story in Beauvoir's memoirs Miranda Fricker; 11. Beauvoir on the ambiguity of evil Robin May Schott; 12. (Re)counting the sexual difference Debra B. Bergoffen; 13. Beauvoir and biology: a second look Moira Gatens; 14. Beauvoir's old age Penelope Deutscher.

Product details

• Authors: Claudia Card, Claudia (University of Wisconsin Card
• Assisted by: Claudia Card (Editor), Card Claudia (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.03.2003
• EAN: 9780521790963
• ISBN: 978-0-521-79096-3
• No. of pages: 362
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philos; Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Linguistics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, Philosophy, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, social and political philosophy, Literature: history & criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature: history and criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Gender Identity