Mussett / Wilkerson Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4456-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Essays on Beauvoir’s influences, contemporary engagements, and legacy in the philosophical tradition.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mussett, Shannon M.

Wilkerson, William S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Authors’ Introduction

1. The Literary Grounding of Metaphysics: Beauvoir and Plato on Philosophical Fiction
Shannon M. Mussett

2. Existence, Freedom, and the Festival: Roussea and Beauvoir
Sally Scholz

3. A Different Kind of Universality: Beauvoir and Kant on Universal Ethics
William Wilkerson

4. Simone de Beauvoir and the Marquis de Sade: Contesting the Logic of Sovereignty and the Politics of Terror and Rape
Debra Bergoffen

5. Beauvoir and Marx
William McBride

6. Saving Time: Temporality, Recurrence, and Transcendence in Beauvoir’s Nietzchean Cycles
Elaine P. Miller

7. Beauvoir and Husserl: An Unorthodox Approach to The Second Sex
Sara Heinämaa

8. Beauvoir and Bergson – A Question of Influence
Margaret A. Simons

9. Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty: Philosophers of Ambiguity
Gail Weiss

10. From Beauvoir to Irigaray: Making Meaning out of Maternity
Erin McCarthy

11. Ambiguity and Precarious Life: Tracing Beauvoir’s Legacy in the Work of Judith Butler
Ann V. Murphy

12. True Philosophers: Beauvoir and bell
bell hooks

Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shannon M. Mussett is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Utah Valley University. She is the coeditor (with Sally J. Scholz) of The Contradictions of Freedom: Philosophical Essays on Simone de Beauvoir's The Mandarins, also published by SUNY Press. William S. Wilkerson is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. He is the author of Ambiguity and Sexuality: A Theory of Sexual Identity and the coeditor (with Jeffrey Paris) of New Critical Theory: Essays on Liberation.