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15Personality, anonymity, and sexual difference: The temporal formation of the transcendental egoIn Christina Schües, Dorothea Olkowski & Helen Fielding (eds.), Time in Feminist Phenomenology, Indiana University Press. pp. 41. 2011.
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125Anonymity and personhood: Merleau-Ponty’s account of the subject of perceptionContinental Philosophy Review 48 (2): 123-142. 2015.Several commentators have argued that with his concept of anonymity Merleau-Ponty breaks away from classical Husserlian phenomenology that is methodologically tied to the first person perspective. Many contemporary commentators see Merleau-Ponty’s discourse on anonymity as a break away from Husserl’s framework that is seen as hopelessly subjectivistic and solipsistic. Some judge and reproach it as a disastrous misunderstanding that leads to a confusion of philosophical and empirical concerns. Bo…Read more
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67The self and the others: Common topics for Husserl and WittgensteinSouthern Journal of Philosophy 50 (2): 234-249. 2012.Several commentators have argued that Husserl's phenomenological project is compromised or even destroyed by Wittgenstein's critical inquiries into our use of psychological concepts. In contrast to oppositional interpretations, this paper explicates certain crucial connections between Husserl's phenomenology and Wittgenstein's late thinking—shared views that concern the embodied nature of selfhood and our relations to other selves. In line with certain recent contributions, I argue that there ar…Read more
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Cixous, Kristeva and Le Dœuff–Three “French Feminists.”In Alan D. Schrift (ed.), The History of Continental Philosophy, University of Chicago Press. pp. 6. 2010.
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6194Merleau-Ponty’s dialogue with Descartes: The living body and its position in metaphysicsIn Dan Zahavi, Sara Heinämaa & Hans Ruin (eds.), Metaphysics, Facticity, Interpretation: Phenomenology in the Nordic Countries, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 23-48. 2003.
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318What is a Woman? Butler and Beauvoir on the Foundations of the Sexual DifferenceHypatia 12 (1): 20-39. 1997.The aim of this paper is to show that Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex has been mistakenly interpreted as a theory of gender, because interpreters have failed adequately to understand Beauvoir's aims. Beauvoir is not trying to explain facts, events, or states of affairs, but to reveal, unveil, or uncover (découvrir) meanings. She explicates the meanings of woman, female, and feminine. Instead of a theory, Beauvoir's book presents a phenomenological description of the sexual difference
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142Toward a Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, BeauvoirRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2003.Sara HeinSmaa rediscovers neglected passages of Le Duexi_me Sexe in her quest to follow Simone de Beauvoir's line of thinking. She finds the masterpiece to be grounded in the work of Husserl and Merleau-Ponty
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10Psychology and philosophy : inquiries into the soul from late scholasticism to contemporary thought (edited book)Springer. 2009.Psychology and Philosophy provides a history of the relations between philosophy and the science of psychology from late scholasticism to contemporary discussions. The book covers the development from 16th-century interpretations of Aristotle’s De Anima, through Kantianism and the 19th-century revival of Aristotelianism, up to 20th-century phenomenological and analytic studies of consciousness and the mind. In this volume historically divergent conceptions of psychology as a science receive spec…Read more
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56A Phenomenology of Sexual Difference: Types, Styles and PersonsIn Charlotte Witt (ed.), Feminist Metaphysics, Springer Verlag. pp. 131--155. 2011.
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41The Soul-Body Union and Sexual Difference from Descartes to Merleau-Ponty and BeauvoirIn Lilli Alanen & Charlotte Witt (eds.), Feminist Reflections on the History of Philosophy, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 55--137. 2004.
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405Simone de beauvoir’s phenomenology of sexual differenceHypatia 14 (4): 114-132. 1999.: 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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559The Animal and the Infant: From Embodiment and Empathy to GenerativityIn Sara Heinämaa, Mirja Hartimo & Timo Miettinen (eds.), Phenomenology and the Transcendental, Routledge. pp. 129-146. 2014.
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303 The body as instrument and as expressionIn Claudia Card (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Cambridge University Press. pp. 66. 2003.
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137 Psychoanalysis of Things: Objective Meanings or Subjective Projections?In Christine Daigle & Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence, Indiana University Press. pp. 128. 2009.
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12An Unorthodox Approach to The Second SexIn Shannon M. Mussett & William S. Wilkerson (eds.), Beauvoir and Western Thought From Plato to Butler, State University of New York Press. pp. 125. 2012.
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492“An Equivocal Couple Overwhelmed by Life”: A Phenomenological Analysis of PregnancyphiloSOPHIA: A Journal of Continental Feminism 4 (1): 12-49. 2014.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:“An Equivocal Couple Overwhelmed by Life”A Phenomenological Analysis of PregnancySara HeinämaaTwo conceptions of human generativity prevail in contemporary feminist philosophy. First, several contributors argue that the experience of pregnancy, when analyzed by phenomenological tools, undermines several distinctions that are central to Western philosophy, most importantly the subject-object distinction and the self-other and own-alie…Read more
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49Simone de Beauvoir's Phenomenology of Sexual DifferenceHypatia 14 (4): 114-132. 1999.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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183Merleau-ponty's modification of phenomenology: Cognition, passion and philosophySynthese 118 (1): 49-68. 1999.This paper problematizes the analogy that Hubert Dreyfus has presented between phenomenology and cognitive science. It argues that Dreyfus presents Merleau-Ponty''s modification of Husserl''s phenomenology in a misleading way. He ignores the idea of philosophy as a radical interrogation and self-responsibility that stems from Husserl''s work and recurs in Merleau-Ponty''s Phenomenology of Perception. The paper focuses on Merleau-Ponty''s understanding of the phenomenological reduction. It shows …Read more
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1902Transformations of Old Age: Selfhood, Normativity, and TimeIn Silvia Stoller (ed.), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter. pp. 167-87. 2014.
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8New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and its Critics (edited book)Brill. 2014.New Perspectives on Aristotelianism and Its Critics traces Aristotelian influences in modern and pre-modern discourses on knowledge, rights, and the good life. The contributions offer new insights on contemporary discussions on life in its cognitive, political, and ethical dimensions
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The Background of Simone de Beauvoir's Metaphysical Novel: Kierkegaard and HusserlActa Philosophica Fennica 79 175. 2006.
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University of HelsinkiDepartment of Philosophy (Theoretical Philosophy, Practical Philosophy, Philosophy in Swedish)Researcher
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