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    Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny
    In Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. 2017.
    Despite the advances wrought in recent years by recuperative readings of The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir's views on motherhood and mothering remain under‐appropriated when it comes to both feminist metaphysics and feminist political priorities. In our radically anti‐essentialist era, we are inclined take for granted that gender is a social construct, potentially oppressive when it's understood as a biological given but potentially liberating when its fundamental arbitrariness and infinite mal…Read more
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    Feminist scholars reacted to news of Beauvoir's death in 1986 by initiating a reevaluation of her life's work, a task encouraged by Sylvie Le Bon de Beauvoir, her adopted daughter, who edited for posthumous publication many of Beauvoir's personal notebooks and letters to Sartre. Some of the most exciting new interpretations of Beauvoir's philosophy that have resulted are brought together here for the first time; many of them, indeed, were written expressly for this first volume of essays on Beau…Read more
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    A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (edited book)
    with Laura Hengehold
    Wiley. 2017.
    4. Giving Voice: Beauvoir's Legacy in Two Perspectives.
  • Recounting Woman: Simone de Beauvoir and Feminist Philosophy
    Dissertation, Harvard University. 1997.
    This dissertation is meant as a call for philosophers to turn, and feminists to return, to Simone de Beauvoir's landmark tome The Second Sex. My central claim is that in this book Beauvoir establishes her own genuinely original kink in the history of philosophy by discovering a way to appropriate the tradition that is grounded in questions about her being a woman. I argue that Beauvoir's discovery provides a model for a way to think philosophically about sex difference that dispels the air of se…Read more
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    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered Phenomenologıes, Erotic Generosities by Debra B. Bergoffen, Sex and Existence: Simone de Beauvoir’s ‘The Second Sex’ by Eva Lundgren-Gothlin, Beauvoir and The Second Sex: Feminism, Race, and the Origins of Existentialism by Margaret A. Simons, Philosophy as Passion: The Thinking of Simone de Beauvoir by Karen VintgesNancy BauerDebra B. Bergoffen. The Philosophy of Simone de B…Read more
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    Being-with as being-against: Heidegger meets Hegel in the second sex (review)
    Continental Philosophy Review 34 (2): 129-149. 2001.
    In this paper I attempt to further the case, made in recent years by Eva Gothlin, that readers interested in a philosophical return to Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex have good reason to heed Beauvoir's appropriation of central concepts from Heidegger's Being and Time. I speculate about why readers have been hesitant to acknowledge Heidegger's influence on Beauvoir and show that her infrequent though, I argue, important use of the Heideggarian neologism Mitsein in The Second Sex makes inadeq…Read more
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    Must We Read Simone de Beauvoir?
    In Emily R. Grosholz (ed.), The Legacy of Simone de Beauvoir, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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    Essai sur Beauvoir, Cavell, etc. [An Essay Concerning Beauvoir, Cavell, Etc.]
    In Eliane Lecarme-Tabone & Jean-Louis Jeannelle (eds.), Cahiers de L'Herne: Beauvoir, L'herne. 2012.
    The link is to an expanded, English version of this essay.
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    Simone de Beauvoir
    Die Philosophin 10 (20): 41-61. 1999.
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    The First Rule of Fight Club
    In Thomas Wartenberg (ed.), Fight Club, Routledge. 2011.
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    Advaita vedānta and contemporary western ethics
    Philosophy East and West 37 (1): 36-50. 1987.
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  • Book Reviews (review)
    Journal of the History of Philosophy 37 (4): 688. 1999.
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    Simone de Beauvoir. Philosophy, and Feminism
    Columbia University Press. 2001.
    " Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?