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The Opium of the Lasses: Beauvoir’s Revaluation of Love in <i>The Second Sex</i> Open
This paper argues that Beauvoir’s The Second Sex offers a genealogy of the morality of sexual hierarchy in which love plays a central role. In dialogue with Sara Heinämaa’s reading of Beauvoir as a projection theorist, I argue that the eco…
Femininity, love, and alienation: the genius of The Second Sex Open
This article presents an axiological reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex, reframing its most famous sentence ‘one is not born, but becomes, a woman’ as a claim about femininity, love, and alienation under particular conditions o…
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Existentialism and Exemplars Open
In this paper, Kate Kirkpatrick argues that the recent return to moral exemplars in exemplarist moral theory might benefit from engaging with existentialists' use of exemplars in two ways: first, by considering the role of negative exempla…
Beauvoir and Sartre's “disagreement” about freedom Open
The French existentialists Simone de Beauvoir and Jean‐Paul Sartre are renowned philosophers of freedom. But what “existentialist freedom” is is a matter of disagreement amongst their interpreters and, some argue, between Beauvoir and Sart…
Book Reviews Open
Oliver Gloag, Albert Camus: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), 112pp. ISBN: 9780198792970. £8.99 (paperback). Meryl Altman, Beauvoir in Time (Leiden: Brill, 2020), x + 570pp. ISBN: 9789004431201. €142.00 (ha…
Literary Interventions in Justice: A Symposium Open
The purpose of this symposium is to explore the ways in which literature, broadly construed to include poetry and narrative in a variety of modes of representation, can change the world by providing interventions in justice. Our approach f…
Literary Interventions in Justice Open
In his Theses on Feuerbach, Karl Marx made the famous injunction: ‘Philosophers have hitherto only interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it.’ This is a daunting task for most academics specialising in literature, es…
Analytic Theology and the Phenomenology of Faith Open
This article argues that analytic philosophy has a “convincingness deficit”; that proponents of the analytic method’s application to questions of theology must consider whether it is the best tool for the purpose at hand; and that phenomen…
Silvia Stoller, editor, Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, Time, Boston and Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-027912-2 Open
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