Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

Inbunden, Engelska, 2012

AvShannon M. Mussett,William S. Wilkerson,Shannon M Mussett,William S Wilkerson

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Essays on Beauvoir's influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.Despite a deep familiarity with the philosophical tradition and despite the groundbreaking influence of her own work, Simone de Beauvoir never embraced the idea of herself as a philosopher. Her legacy is similarly complicated. She is acclaimed as a revolutionary thinker on issues of gender, age, and oppression, but although much has been written weighing the influence she and Jean-Paul Sartre had on one another, the extent and sophistication of her engagement with the Western tradition broadly goes mostly unnoticed. This volume turns the spotlight on exactly that, examining Beauvoir's dialogue with her influences and contemporaries, as well as her impact on later thinkers-concluding with an autobiographical essay by bell hooks discussing the influence of Beauvoir's philosophy and life on her own work and career. These innovative essays both broaden our understanding of Beauvoir and suggest new ways of understanding canonical figures through the lens of her work.

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Utgivningsdatum2012-12-01
Mått152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt499 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor258
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438444550

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Shannon M. Mussett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University. She is the coeditor (with Sally J. Scholz) of The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins, also published by SUNY Press. William S. Wilkerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Ambiguity and Sexuality: A Theory of Sexual Identity and the coeditor (with Jeffrey Paris) of New Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation.

Authors’ Introduction1. The Literary Grounding of Metaphysics: Beauvoir and Plato on Philosophical FictionShannon M. Mussett2. Existence, Freedom, and the Festival: Roussea and BeauvoirSally Scholz3. A Different Kind of Universality: Beauvoir and Kant on Universal EthicsWilliam Wilkerson4. Simone de Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade: Contesting the Logic of Sovereignty and the Politics of Terror and RapeDebra Bergoffen5. Beauvoir and MarxWilliam McBride6. Saving Time: Temporality, Recurrence, and Transcendence in Beauvoir’s Nietzchean CyclesElaine P. Miller7. Beauvoir and Husserl: An Unorthodox Approach to The Second SexSara Heinämaa8. Beauvoir and Bergson – A Question of InfluenceMargaret A. Simons9. Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty: Philosophers of AmbiguityGail Weiss10. From Beauvoir to Irigaray: Making Meaning out of MaternityErin McCarthy11. Ambiguity and Precarious Life: Tracing Beauvoir’s Legacy in the Work of Judith ButlerAnn V. Murphy12. True Philosophers: Beauvoir and bellbell hooksContributorsIndex

"…these essays not only broaden our understanding of Beauvoir's philosophical work but also suggest new ways in which we can approach some of the best-known philosophers through her work; the essays are not restricted to addressing influence but further the analysis of other philosophers treated in the volume … it is a breath of fresh air in the study of Beauvoir's thought." — Marx and Philosophy Review of Books"This is an excellent addition to modern-day philosophical thought." — Portland Book Review"This book will correct missteps in Beauvoir's interpretation, especially with respect to her relation to phenomenologists. The chief strength of the volume, though, is that most of the contributors do not restrict themselves to addressing the question of influence, but rather venture to analyze and assess the philosophical proposals found both in Beauvoir's work and in the work of the other philosophers treated in this volume." — Mary Beth Mader, author of Sleights of Reason: Norm, Bisexuality, Development