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Existentialism, Feminism and Simone de Beauvoir

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  • © 1997

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Authors:
  1. Joseph Mahon

    1. University College Galway, UK

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  1. Jo Campling
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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Early Philosophical Writing

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Blood of Others: The Fictional Primer on Existentialism

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 18-34

  4. The Ethics of Ambiguity: An Existentialist Ethics

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 35-45

  5. A Character Ethics

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 46-58

  6. Ethics for Violence

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 59-67

  7. Other Defences of Existentialism: De Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 68-73

  8. Other Defences of Existentialism: De Beauvoir and Sartre

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 74-87

  9. De Beauvoir’s Ethics: A Critical Appraisal

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 88-95

  10. The Historical Background to The Second Sex

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 96-103

  11. The Philosophical Foundations of The Second Sex

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 104-113

  12. The Second Sex: Woman as the Other

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 114-122

  13. Existentialism and the Origins of Male Supremacy

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 123-128

  14. The Married Woman

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 129-138

  15. The Mother

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 139-148

  16. The Independent Woman

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 149-154

  17. Responses to The Second Sex: 1962–79

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 155-160

  18. Responses to The Second Sex: 1981–85

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 161-174

  19. Responses to The Second Sex: 1986–94

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 175-185

  20. Simone de Beauvoir’s Existentialist Feminism: A Defence

    • Joseph Mahon, Jo Campling
    Pages 186-196
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Simone de Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays of the 1940s she produced not just a recognizably existentialist ethics, but also a character ethics and an ethics for violence. These concerns, stemming from her own personal philosophical background, give a vital, contemporary resonance to her work. De Beauvoir's feminist classic The Second Sex reflects her earlier philosophical interests, and is considerably strengthened by this influence. This book defends her existentialist feminism against the many reproaches which have been levelled against it over several decades, not least the criticism that it is steeped in Sartrean masculinism.

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  • University College Galway, UK

    Joseph Mahon

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