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The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, Conversion, Resistance
Studies of Simone de Beauvoir have mostly concentrated on her
literature, her life, and her famous 1949 work, The Second Sex, and the
continued emphasis has been on Beauvoir's views on gender. The
Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir places her theory of women's
"otherness" in the context of a number of contemporary theories on a
similar subject. While gender takes its place among these, Professor
Deutscher counterbalances its grip on our memory of Beauvoir's ideas by
situating it in the context of our relationship to ageing, to
generational difference, and to race and cultural difference. By
differentiating the many aspects of "otherness," Beauvoir revisited some
of the concepts of reciprocity, ambiguity, and ethics for which she is
best remembered.
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