The Blood of Others : A Novel Approach to The Ethics of Ambiguity

Hypatia 14 (4):3-17 (1999)
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This article shows that the relationship between Simone de Beauvoir's novel, Le Sang des autres, first published in 1945, and her essay, Pour une morale de l'ambiguïté, first published in 1947, illustrates her point in "Littérature et métaphysique" that an abstract philosophical theory is grounded in immediate metaphysical experience. An original ethical position emerges from Hélène Bertrand's lived experience in the novel, which anticipates feminist issues addressed in The Second Sex more directly than does Beauvoir's essay.

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The Literary Grounding of Metaphysics.Shannon M. Mussett - 2012 - In Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson (eds.), Beauvoir and Western Thought From Plato to Butler. State University of New York Press. pp. 15-33.

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Pour une morale de l'ambigutté.S. de Beauvoir & Francis Jeanson - 1950 - Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 140:381-381.
L'existentialisme et la sagesse des Nations.Simone de Beauvoir - 1948 - Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale 53 (3):325-326.
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