Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Beauvoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780847697854)

Simone de Beauvoir's Le Deuxi鑪e Sexe has been studied extensively since its appearance in 1949. Through the years, certain passages have taken on prestige; others are seen as unimportant to understanding Beauvoir's argument. In Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference, Sara Hein舂aa rediscovers those neglected passages in her quest to follow Beauvoir's line of thinking. Hein舂aa, like some other recent philosophers, finds that Le Duexi鑪e Sexe is a philosophical inquiry, not the empirical study it is commonly thought to be.

Others who view Beauvoir's masterpiece as a work of philosophy argue it is a criticism not only of Sartrean phenomenology, but of phenomenology as a whole. Hein舂aa thinks differently. She finds that Beauvoir's starting point is the Husserlian idea of the living body that she found developed in Merleau-Ponty's Ph駭om駭ologie de la perception. So when Beavoir wrote Le Duexi鑪e Sexe, she was writing not as Sartre's pupil, but as a scholar in the tradition of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty.

Author: Sara Hein舂aa
ISBN-10: 0847697851
ISBN-13: 9780847697854
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 182
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.48h x 5.40w x 0.53d