The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities

Challenges Beauvoir's self-portrait and argues that she was a philosopher in her own right.

The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities sees Beauvoir as engaged in a three-way conversation with Sartre and Merleau-Ponty. Like Sartre and Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir took up the legacies of the modern and phenomenological philosophical traditions. Unlike them, however, she attended to the phenomenological implications of the sexed body, pursued the idea of ambiguity and developed the philosophical category of the erotic.

This book reads Beauvoir as speaking in two philosophical voices; a familiar existential voice and an unfamiliar voice that speaks of the other, generosity, the gift and the ethical possibilities of the erotic event.

Author: Debra Bergoffen
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 11/01/1996
Series: Suny Series, Feminist Philosophy
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.86lbs
Size: 8.88h x 5.80w x 0.58d
ISBN: 9780791431528