Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age (eBook)

Gender, Ethics, and Time

Silvia Stoller (Herausgeber)

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2014 | 1. Auflage
255 Seiten
Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co.KG (Verlag)
978-3-11-033914-7 (ISBN)

Infos

International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from North America and Europe offer a unique look at one of the most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. The articles cover three main issues: gender, ethics, and time. This volume offers valuable contributions to Beauvoir studies, aging studies, cultural and gender studies, feminist theory, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.

Silvia Stoller, University of Vienna, Austria.

Inhalt

Acknowledgments 7
Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age 13
Part One: Age and Gender 39
The Sex of Age and the Age of Sex. The Compressions of Life 41
Gender, Age, and Passivity. Comment on Penelope Deutscher 55
The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age.An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female Body 59
Age as a Problem for Both Sexes.Comment on Gail Weiss 77
The Poetry of Habit.Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Aging Embodiment 81
Are Poetic Habits Particular to the Aged?.Comment on Helen A. Fielding 95
Part Two: Age and Ethics 99
Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age and Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason. The Material Mediations of Age as Lived Experience 101
Habits Shifting Into Projects. Comment on Sonia Kruks 115
The Other Without and the Other Within. The Alterity of Aging and the Aged in Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age 119
Fear of Old Age. Comment on Linda Fisher 135
The Dignity of Finitude 139
Different Finite Bodies. Comment on Debra Bergoffen 155
Letting Go the Weight of the Past. Beauvoir and the Joy of Existence 159
Ethics and Nature. Comment on Dorothea Olkowski 173
Part Three: Age and Time 177
Transformations of Old Age. Selfhood, Normativity, and Time 179
Revisioning Classical Phenomenology. Comment on Sara Heinämaa 203
We in the Other, and the Child in Us. The Intersection of Time in Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty 207
Towards a Gerontological Ethics of Existence?.Comment on Silvia Stoller 223
Age and Future.Phenomenological Paths of Optimism 227
Ambiguous Future.Comment on Christina Schües 243
Contributors 247
Index of Names 255

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2014
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• ISBN-10: 3-11-033914-5 / 3110339145
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-033914-7 / 9783110339147