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Old age and the question of authenticityIn Liesbeth Schoonheim, Julia Jansen & Karen Vintges (eds.), Simone de Beauvoir and contemporary political theory: a toolkit for the 21st century, Routledge. 2023.
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7Revolutionary Hope: Essays in Honor of William L. Mcbride (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.Over the course of the last four decades, William Leon McBride has distinguished himself as one of the most esteemed and accomplished philosophers of his generation. This volume—which celebrates the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday—includes contributions from colleagues, friends, and formers students and pays tribute to McBride’s considerable achievements as a teacher, mentor, and scholar
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Old age and the question of authenticityIn Liesbeth Schoonheim & Karen Vintges (eds.), Beauvoir and Politics: A Toolkit, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2023.
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6Beauvoir and the Marxism QuestionIn Laura Hengehold & Nancy Bauer (eds.), A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, Wiley. 2017.Marxism was an integral aspect of Beauvoir's political and theoretical orientation from the mid‐1940s onwards and it colors much of her writings. This chapter first locates Beauvoir in her politico‐intellectual milieu. It then traces the complex ways in which, throughout her works, she draws on materialist and humanistic aspects of Marxism while also often distancing herself from the more mechanistic Marxism of the French Communist Party.
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11Existentialism and phenomenologyIn Alison M. Jaggar & Iris Marion Young (eds.), A companion to feminist philosophy, Blackwell. 1998.Existentialism and phenomenology seem, at first glance, to constitute one of those rare strands of modern Western philosophy that converges productively with feminism. They form a tradition that opposes abstract, rationalist thought and is instead committed to elucidating concrete, “lived experience,” including experiences of embodiment and emotion. As such, they anticipate much “second‐wave” feminist thought that criticizes abstraction, beginning from accounts of women's concrete experiences an…Read more
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1Women's 'lived experience' : feminism and phenomenology from Simone de Beauvoir to the presentIn Mary Evans, Clare Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Hazel Johnstone, Sumi Madhok, Ania Plomien & Sadie Wearing (eds.), The SAGE handbook of feminist theory, Sage Reference. 2014.
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26Alterity and Intersectionality: Reflections on Old Age in the Time of COVID-19Hypatia 37 (1): 196-209. 2022.There was a day in March 2020 when I discovered I was old. There had, of course, been quite a few previous intimations of impending old age, but they had not “really” defined my being for me. Some years earlier, I had been surprised when people started to offer me their seat on a crowded bus or train. At first, I politely refused the seat; later, I decided that I would accept such invitations because declining seemed ungracious, and because accepting would encourage this thoughtful behavior from…Read more
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257For a Modest Human Exceptionalism: Simone de Beauvoir and the 'New Materialisms'Simone de Beauvoir Studies 30 (2): 252-273. 2019.The "new materialisms' offer an important critique of 'human exceptionalism, however they tend to overstate their case by ignoring those qualities of freedom that remain distinctive to human life. The paper turns to Simone de Beauvoir to make an argument for a more modest human exceptionalism.
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For a Modest Human Exceptionalism: Simone de Beauvoir and the "New Materialisms"Simone de Beauvoir Studies 30 (2): 252-74. 2019.The “new materialisms” offer an important critique of “human exceptionalism,” challenging deeply held conceptions of “man” as a “sovereign subject.” However, they tend to overstate their claims by ignoring those qualities of freedom that still remain distinctive to human life. This article turns to Beauvoir to make a case for a more “modest” human exceptionalism: while she also grounds the human inextricably in the material, Beauvoir offers fuller resources than do new materialisms for examining…Read more
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21Book Review: Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter, by Lori Jo Marso (review)Political Theory 47 (1): 121-126. 2019.
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15The French New Left: An Intellectual History from Sartre to Gorz, by Arthur HirshJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 16 (2): 213-215. 1985.
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92Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of AmbiguityOxford University Press USA. 2012.Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of Ambiguity is the first full-length study of Beauvoir's political thinking. Best known as the author of The Second Sex, Beauvoir also wrote an array of other political and philosophical texts that together, constitute an original contribution to political theory and philosophy. Sonia Kruks here locates Beauvoir in her own intellectual and political context and demonstrates her continuing significance. Beauvoir still speaks, in a unique voice, to many pressin…Read more
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24Living alterities: Phenomenology, embodiment, and raceContemporary Political Theory 15 (1). 2016.
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Tipton, Steven M., "Getting Saved from the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change" (review)Ethics 93 (n/a): 635. 1982.
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20Hazel E. Barnes, the story I telll myself: A venture in existential autobiographySartre Studies International 4 (2): 34-39. 1998.
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28Situation and human existence: freedom, subjectivity, and societyUnwin Hyman. 1990.This series presents issues which are central to 20th-century European thought, but unfamiliar to students of Anglo-American philosophy. In this book the author traces the development of the concept of situation through the work of Gabriel Marcel, Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty.
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55Marcel and Merleau-ponty: Incarnation, situation and the problem of history (review)Human Studies 10 (2). 1987.THIS PAPER COMPARES THE WORK OF MERLEAU-PONTY WITH THAT OF MARCEL, TO WHOM HE IS SAID TO OWE A MAJOR INTELLECTUAL DEBT. ALTHOUGH THERE ARE APPARENT SIMILARITIES TO BE FOUND IN THEIR WORK, ESPECIALLY IN THEIR CONCEPTS OF "INCARNATION" AND "SITUATION," THERE ARE STRIKING DIVERGENCES IN THEIR VIEWS ABOUT "HISTORY." A STUDY OF THESE POINTS THE WAY TO AN EXPLORATION OF YET MORE FUNDAMENTAL DISAGREEMENTS BETWEEN THEIR SUPERFICIALLY SIMILAR "PHILOSOPHIES OF EXISTENCE.&quot
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26Jean-Paul Sartre. Hated Conscience of His Century (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 4 (4): 51-54. 1991.
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25Beauvoir’s Time/Our Time: The Renaissance in Simone de Beauvoir StudiesFeminist Studies 31 (2): 286-309. 2005.
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59Simone de Beauvoir and the Politics of PrivilegeHypatia 20 (1): 178-205. 2005.How should socially privileged white feminists address their privilege? Often, individuals are urged to overcome their own personal racism through a politics of self-transformation. The paper argues that this strategy may be problematic, since it rests on an over-autonomous conception of the self. The paper turns to Simone de Beauvoir for an alternative account of the self, as “situated,” and explores what this means for a politics of privilege.
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11Moving Beyond Sartre: Constraint and Judgment in Beauvoir's “Moral Essays” and The Mandarins'In Christine Daigle & Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of Influence, Indiana University Press. pp. 160--79. 2009.
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40‘Spaces of Freedom’: Materiality, Mediation and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and SartreContemporary Political Theory 5 (4): 469. 2006.In the light of a renewed interest today in forms of direct political participation, this paper explores the contributions of Sartre and Arendt to defending direct political action as an intrinsically valuable form of human freedom. Both thinkers note, however, that such forms of action and the 'spaces of freedom' in which they become possible are always fleeting and transitory. The paper argues that Sartre's account of the ways in which human action is always mediated and alienated by materiali…Read more
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28Western Marxism: A tale of woe?Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society 2 (4): 114-126. 1988.WESTERN MARXISM by J. G. Merquior London: Paladin Books, 1986. 247pp., £3.95.
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15Hazel E. Barnes, The Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existential AutobiographySartre Studies International 4 34-39. 1998.
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34The Philosophy Of Simone de Beauvoir (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 154-155. 2003.