Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation : The Problem of the Second Sex

Hengehold, Laura

Edinburgh University Press（2019/02発売）

Edinburgh University Press（2019/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 256 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781474444125
• DDC分類 194

Full Description

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 and the important role of her student diaries.
Most studies of Simone de Beauvoir situate her with respect to Hegel and the tradition of 20th-century phenomenology begun by Husserl and Heidegger, and often stress the importance of Hegel's struggle for recognition. Hengehold, in comparison, reads de Beauvoir through a Deleuzian lens, and looks at de Beauvoir's early interest in Bergson and Leibniz.
Hengehold clarifies the elements of Deleuze's thought - alone and in collaboration with Guattari - that may be most useful to contemporary feminists who are simultaneously rethinking the becoming of gender and the becoming of philosophy.

Contents

List of Abbreviations

1. Introduction: Blocked SingularitiesPhenomenologySense and the EventHistoricity of the Problem

2. The Problem of Sexist SenseRepresentation and the Creation of ConceptsTranscendenceConceptual personae and the Prephilosophical Plane

3. Lived ExperienceConsciousness and habitVarieties of ImmanenceMaternityWorkNarcissism, Love, and Mysticism

4. The Freedom of OthersPyrrhus and CineasThe Ethics of AmbiguityCommunication and RecognitionTransindividualityBack to Mitsein

5. Territories and AssemblagesPhilosophy and Literary ProblemsAmbiguities of sexUniversal or Just Common?

6. Virtual ConflictsEthics and Politics from the MilieuEqual how?Whose History? Which Event?What can Institutions do?

7. Conclusion

Works CitedIndex