A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (eBook)

Laura Hengehold, Nancy Bauer (Herausgeber)

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2017
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-1-118-79596-5 (ISBN)

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Winner of the 2018 Choice award for Outstanding Academic Title!
The work of Simone de Beauvoir has endured and flowered in the last two decades, thanks primarily to the lasting influence of The Second Sex on the rise of academic discussions of gender, sexuality, and old age. Now, in this new Companion dedicated to her life and writings, an international assembly of prominent scholars, essayists, and leading interpreters reflect upon the range of Beauvoir's contribution to philosophy as one of the great authors, thinkers, and public intellectuals of the twentieth century.

The Companion examines Beauvoir's rich intellectual life from a variety of angles-including literary, historical, and anthropological perspectives-and situates her in relation to her forbears and contemporaries in the philosophical canon. Essays in each of four thematic sections reveal the breadth and acuity of her insight, from the significance of The Second Sex and her work on the metaphysics of gender to her plentiful contributions in ethics and political philosophy. Later chapters trace the relationship between Beauvoir's philosophical and literary work and open up her scholarship to global issues, questions of race, and the legacy of colonialism and sexism. The volume concludes by considering her impact on contemporary feminist thought writ large, and features pioneering work from a new generation of Beauvoir scholars. 

Ambitious and unprecedented in scope, A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir is an accessible and interdisciplinary resource for students, teachers, and researchers across the humanities and social sciences.

Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University. A prolific author, her most recent book is Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Individuation: The Problem of The Second Sex.

Nancy Bauer is Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Dean of Academic Affairs for the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism.

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Notes on Contributors

Meryl Altman is Professor of English and Women's Studies at DePauw University. She is working on a book, Beauvoir in Time.

A. Alexander Antonopoulos teaches courses in sexuality and feminism at the Simone de Beauvoir Institute, the Department of Philosophy, and Political Science Department at Concordia University in Montreal, Québec. His published work includes the co‐edited anthology High Culture: Reflections on Addiction and Modernity (State University of New York Press, 2003). He is currently working on a trans reading of The Second Sex, locating Beauvoir’s phenomenological tract within a history of modern science and the clinic.

Kristana Arp is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at Long Island University, Brooklyn. Her book The Bonds of Freedom: Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Ethics was published in 2001 (Open Court). She is also the author of many scholarly essays on twentieth‐century French and German philosophy.

Eva D. Bahovec is Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, where she teaches contemporary French philosophy and gender studies. She has edited the Slovene translation of Beauvoir’s Second Sex (Krtina, 2013). Her recent publications include “The Ego and the Other,” in The Klein‐Lacan Dialogues (London, Carnac Books, 2015), “Fatal Contingency: Althusser, Beauvoir, Rousseau,” published in the journal Problemi (2016). She is presently working on the book Foucault and Philosophy, to be published in 2018 in Ljubljana.

Nancy Bauer is Professor of Philosophy, Dean of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and Dean of Academic Affairs for the Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences. She is interested in thinking about what philosophy is and what role it plays, or should or might play, in everyday human life. Her writing explores these issues, especially as they arise in reflection about gender and philosophy – and almost always with reference to Simone de Beauvoir. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir, Philosophy, and Feminism (Columbia University Press, 2001) and How to Do Things With Pornography (Harvard University Press, 2015).

Debra Bergoffen is Professor Emerita of Philosophy at George Mason University and the Bishop Hamilton Philosopher in Residence at American University. Her writings include The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologies, Erotic Generosities (State University of New York Press, 1997), Contesting the Politics of Genocidal Rape: Affirming the Dignity of the Vulnerable Body (Routledge, 2012), and the coedited anthology, Confronting Global Gender Justice: Human Rights, Women’s Lives (Routledge, 2011). Her essays dealing with sexual violence in armed conflict, human rights, Simone de Beauvoir, Nietzsche, and Lacan have appeared in numerous edited collections and journals. She is currently working on a book titled Antigone After Auschwitz.

Tanella Boni is a writer and professor of philosophy at Houphouët‐Boigny University, Cocody, Abidjan (Ivory Coast), currently teaching at Université de Paris 8 as a visiting professor. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies. Her works focus on human rights, African literatures and arts, feminist issues, and the relation between ethics and politics. She has authored several collections of poetry, essays, and novels, including Matins de couvre‐feu (Editions du Rocher, 2005); Les nègres n’iront jamais au paradis (Serpent à plumes, 2006); La diversité du monde. Réflexions sur l’écriture et les questions de notre temps (Editions L'Harmattan, 2010); Que vivent les femmes d’Afrique? (Éditions du Panama, 2008); L’avenir a rendez‐vous avec l’aube (Vents d'ailleurs, 2011); Toute d’étincelles vêtue (Vents d'ailleurs, 2014), and she is a contributor to the Routledge Companion to Feminist Philosophy, edited by Ann Garry, Serene Khader, and Alison Stone (2017).

Patricia Hill Collins is Distinguished University Professor of Sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is the author of nine books, including the award‐winning Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (Routledge, 2000) and Black Sexual Politics: African Americans, Gender, and the New Racism (Routledge, 2004). Intersectionality, her most recent book co‐authored with Sirma Bilge, was published in 2016 as part of Polity Press’s Key Concepts series.

Christine Daigle is Professor of Philosophy and Chancellor’s Chair for Research Excellence at Brock University (Canada). She is the author of Jean‐Paul Sartre (Routledge, 2009) and co‐edited with Jacob Golomb the volume Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence (Indiana University Press 2009). Her first book was a comparative study of Nietzsche and Sartre. She has published books and articles on Nietzsche, Beauvoir, and Sartre.

Penelope Deutscher is Joan and Sarepta Harrison Professor of Philosophy at Northwestern University. She the author of a number of works in the area of twentieth‐century French philosophy and gender and sexuality studies, including The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir (Cambridge University Press, 2008).

Zeynep Direk received her PhD from the University of Memphis in 1998. She is professor in the Department of Philosophy at Koç University in Istanbul, Turkey. She publishes on contemporary French philosophy, ethics, political philosophy, feminism, and the history of Turkish philosophy. Her research on feminism focuses on feminist thinkers’ interpretations of the fundamental problems and concepts of Western philosophy. Zeynep Direk edited the Blackwell Companion to Derrida, and is the author of three books in Turkish, Başkalık Deneyimi [The Experience of Alterity] (İstanbul: Yapı Kredi, 2005), Derrida’nın Siyaset Felsefesi, Derrida's Political Philosophy (forthcoming, İstanbul: Metis, 2017) and Feminism and Philosophy (forthcoming, İstanbul: Metis, 2017).

Ingrid Galster (1944–2015) was Professor of Romance Literatures at the University of Padeborn, Germany. In addition to work on Latin American literature and film, she was author/editor of numerous books on Jean‐Paul Sartre, particularly his dramatic works, and four books on Beauvoir, including the collection Simone de Beauvoir: Le Deuxième Sexe. Le livre fondateur du féminisme moderne en situation (Paris: Honoré Champion, 2004), which explored the state of the intellectual disciplines referenced by Beauvoir in 1949 and resulted in a revised version of Gallimard’s text. A ground‐breaking intellectual historian, Galster also undertook significant primary research into Sartre’s and Beauvoir’s activities during the Occupation. Her last book was Simone de Beauvoir und der Feminismus (Hamburg: Argument Verlag, 2015).

Kathryn T. Gines's primary research and teaching interests lie in continental philosophy (especially Existentialism and Phenomenology), Africana Philosophy, Black Feminist Philosophy, and Critical Philosophy of Race. She has published articles on race, assimilation, feminism, intersectionality, and sex and sexuality in contemporary hip‐hop. Gines is author of Hannah Arendt and the Negro Question (Indiana University Press, 2014) and has co‐edited an anthology titled Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy (State University of New York Press, 2010). She is the founding director of the Collegium of Black Women Philosophers (CBWP), the director of Cultivating Underrepresented Students in Philosophy (CUSP), co‐founder (with Shirley Moody Turner) of the Anna Julia Cooper Society, and a founding co‐editor of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race (CPR).

Ruth Groenhout is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Calvin College, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Her publications focus on a range of issues in bioethics and an ethics of care, and include Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care (Rowman & Littlefield, 2004), and Philosophy, Feminism, and Faith (Indiana University Press, 2003). She has written a variety of journal articles on issues such as the ethics of public health research, embodiment and the nurse–client encounter, virtue theory and feminism, and the international brain drain problem in medicine.

Emily R. Grosholz is Liberal Arts Research Professor of Philosophy at Penn State, and member of SPHERE, University of Paris Diderot/Paris 7. Her book of poetry, Childhood (Accents Publishing, 2014), translated into Japanese by Atsuko Hayakawa and Italian by Sara Amadori, has raised over $2250 for UNICEF. Starry Reckoning: Reference and Analysis in Mathematics and Cosmology, and Great Circles: The Transits of Mathematics and Poetry, are due out from Springer in 2017 and 2018.

Laura Hengehold is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA. She is the author of Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation (Edinburgh University Press, 2017) and The Body Problematic: Foucault...

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• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 27.7.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Reihe/Serie: Blackwell Companions to Philosophy
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: 20th century philosophers • A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir • Beauvoir and the ambiguities of motherhood • Beauvoir, Simone de • central themes of Simone de Beauvoir • Childhood and Simone de Beauvoir • Continental Philosophy • English translation of The Second Sex • famous women in history • Feminism • Gender & Philosophy • Gender theory • Gender theory and Simone de Beauvoir • Geschlechterfragen u. Philosophie • historical women • Human sexuality • Kontinentalphilosophie • laboring with Beauvoir • Laura Hengehold • love according to Narcissism and Simone de Beauvoir • Nancy Bauer • Narcissism and Simone de Beauvoir • Philosophie • Philosophy • philosophy and Simone de Beauvoir • Simone de Beauvoir • Simone de Beauvoir and Family Complexes • Simone de Beauvoir and race • Simone de Beauvoir and the biological body • themes of The Second Sex • The Reception of Le Deuxième Sexe • The Second Sex • The second sexuality
• ISBN-10: 1-118-79596-2 / 1118795962
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-79596-5 / 9781118795965