Simone de Beauvoir's Phenomenology of Sexual Difference

Hypatia 14 (4):114-132 (1999)
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The paper argues that the philosophical starting point of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is the phenomenological understanding of the living body, developed by Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It shows that Beauvoir's notion of philosophy stems from the phenomenological interpretation of Cartesianism which emphasizes the role of evidence, self-criticism, and dialogue.

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10.1111/j.1527-2001.1999.tb01256.x

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