Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy of individuation : the problem of The second sex /

Hengehold, Laura,

Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy of individuation : the problem of The second sex / Laura Hengehold. - Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2017. - 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Acknowledgements -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction: Blocked Singularities. Phenomenology -- Sense and the Event -- Historicity of the Problem -- 2. The Problem of the Sexist Sense. Representation and the Creation of Concepts -- Transcendence- Components of the Concept -- Conceptural Personae and the Pre-philosophical Plane -- 3. Lived Experience. Consciousness and Habit -- Varieties of Immanence -- Maternity -- Work -- Narcissim, Love and Mysticism -- 4. The Freedom of Others. 'Pyrrhus and Cineas' -- The Ethics of Ambiguity -- Recognition and Communication -- Transindividuality -- Back to Mitsein -- 5. Territories and Assemblages. Philosophical and Literary Problems -- Ambiguities of Sex -- Universal or Just Common? -- 6. Virtual Conflicts. Ethics and Politics from the milieu -- Equal how? -- Whose History? Which Event? -- What can Institutions do? -- 7. Concusion -- Works Cited -- Index.

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, the important role of her student diaries and her early interest in Bergson and Leibniz.



9781474418881 9781474418874


Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 --
Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 --Criticism and interpretation.


Individuation (Philosophy)
Feminism.


Electronic Books.

HQ1208 / .S566 2017