SoSe 23: Beauvoir’s Second Sex and its philosophical influence (Englisch)
Manon Garcia
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Reading the introduction of The Second Sex, one is stricken by how programmatic it is: in retrospect, it looks like the agenda of the different branches of feminist philosophy is already laid out in ... Lesen Sie weiter
Reading the introduction of The Second Sex, one is stricken by how programmatic it is: in retrospect, it looks like the agenda of the different branches of feminist philosophy is already laid out in these few pages. Yet, The Second Sex is rarely read as a ”big” - to not say canonical - text of philosophy. This seminar intends to do so: the first two thirds of the semester will be devoted to an extensive reading of The Second Sex, with an emphasis placed on the identification of Beauvoir‘s numerous philosophical influences (Husserl, Hegel, Heidegger, but also Bergson or Jules Lagneau).
And the last part of the seminar will be devoted to a study of Beauvoir‘s influence on philosophers as different as Iris Murdoch, Frantz Fanon, bell hooks, and Iris Marion Young.
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