Misunderstanding in Paris

Authors
Publication date 2017
Host editors
  • L. Hengehold
  • N. Bauer
Book title A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir
ISBN
  • 9781118796023
  • 9781119415343
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781118795965
  • 9781118795996
Series Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
Pages (from-to) 478-488
Publisher Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell
Organisations
  • Faculty of Humanities (FGw) - Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR) - Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Abstract This chapter discusses the mistaken ways in which Beauvoir's work is interpreted by some of France's leading feminists. It counterposes their reception by arguing that Beauvoir's concept of the free ethical way of life is Hegelian rather than Kantian in character. In The Ethics of Ambiguity she outlines ethics as an always situated, embodied life project, a perspective that is the theoretical framework of The Second Sex as well and that calls for a plural feminism in world perspective.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118795996.ch38
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