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

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 246 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781474418881
  • 9781474418874
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • HQ1208 .S566 2017
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Contents:
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.
Subject: 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.
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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.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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