Existentialism, Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir

ISBN-13: 9780333659120 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 241 str.

Joseph Mahon; Jo Campling; J. Mahon

Opis

An analysis and defence of Simone de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism which examines the existentialist ethics, character ethics and ethics for violence produced in her novels and philosophical essays of the 1940s.

Spis treści

Preface - Early Philosophical Writing - The Blood of Others: The Fictional Primer on Existentialism - The Ethics of Ambiguity: An Existentialist Ethics - A Character Ethics - Ethics for Violence - Other Defences of Existentialism: De Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty - Other Defences of Existentialism: De Beauvoir and Sartre - De Beauvoir's Ethics: A Critical Appraisal - The Historical Background to The Second Sex - The Philosophical Foundations of The Second Sex - The Second Sex: Woman as the Other - Existentialism and the Origins of Male Supremacy - The Married Woman - The Mother - The Independent Woman - Responses to The Second Sex: 1962-1979 - Responses to The Second Sex: 1981-1985 - Responses to The Second Sex: 1986-1994 - Simone de Beauvoir's Existentialist Feminism: A Defence - Notes - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

JOSEPH MAHON