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Overview
Simone De Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays of the 1940s she produced not just a recognizable existentialist ethics, but also a character ethics and an ethics for violence. This book defends her existentialist feminism against the many reproaches which have been levelled against it over several decades.Synopsis
Simone De Beauvoir made her own distinctive contribution to existentialism in the form of an ethics which diverged sharply from that of Jean-Paul Sartre. In her novels and philosophical essays of the 1940s she produced not just a recognizable existentialist ethics, but also a character ethics and an ethics for violence. This book defends her existentialist feminism against the many reproaches which have been levelled against it over several decades.
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Mahon (University College Galway) defends de Beauvoir's existentialist feminism against the many reproaches which have been leveled against it over several decades, including the criticism that it is steeped in Sartrean masculinism. He demonstrates that the philosophical foundations of "The Second Sex" are located in de Beauvoir's earlier philosophical essays; that her thought differs extensively from that contained in contemporaneous works by Sartre; and that her attempt at constructing a normative ethics is an enterprise which Sartre repeatedly repudiates. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.