Philosophy of Simone De Beauvoir

Margaret A. Simons is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She is a founding editor of Hypatia and editor of a seven-volume English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's writings.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMargaret A. Simons1. Engaging with Simone de BeauvoirMichèle Le Doeuff2. Simone de Beauvoir's Phenomenology of Sexual DifferenceSara Heinämaa3. She Came to Stay and Being and NothingnessEdward Fullbrook4. Beauvoir's Heideggerian OntologyNancy Bauer5. Marriage, Autonomy, and the Feminine ProtestDebra B. Bergoffen6. Transcendence and Immanence in the Ethics of Simone de BeauvoirAndrea Veltman7. Beauvoir and Sartre on Appeal, Desire, and AmbiguityEva Gothlin8. Reciprocity and Friendship in Beauvoir's ThoughtJulie K. Ward9. Sexuality Situated: Beauvoir on "Frigidity"Suzanne Laba Cataldi10. Beauvoir's Parrhesiastic Contracts: Frank-speaking and the Philosophical-Political CoupleLaura Hengehold11. Beauvoir's Idea of AmbiguityStacy Keltner12. Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Thinker for the Twenty-first CenturyKaren Vintges13. The Self-Other Relation in Beauvoir's Ethics and AutobiographyUrsula Tidd14. Challenging Choices: An Ethic of OppressionGail Weiss15. Between Generosity and Violence: Toward a Revolutionary Politics in the Philosophy of Simone de BeauvoirAnn V. Murphy16. Conditions of Servitude: Woman's Peculiar Role in the Master-Slave Dialectic in Beauvoir's The Second SexShannon M. MussettList of ContributorsIndex

". . . [an] international group of philosophers discusses all of Beauvoir's work, setting it in dialogue with other philosophers including Edmund Husserl, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Martin Heidegger, Michel Foucault, and Emmanuel Levinas, and covering a wide range of topics, including her ethic of the erotic; her views on marriage, mothers, and female friendships; and her interpretations of oppression and liberation. Vol. 23.1 (January-March 2008)"—Hypatia