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429Simone de beauvoir and the politics of privilegeHypatia 20 (1): 178-205. 2005.: How should socially privileged white feminists (and others) 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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217For 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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185Merleau-ponty: A phenomenological critique of liberalismPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 37 (3): 394-407. 1977.
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90Simone 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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83Identity Politics and Dialectical Reason: Beyond an Epistemology of ProvenanceHypatia 10 (2). 1995.Identity politics is important within feminism. However, it often presupposes an overly subjectivist theory of knowledge that I term an epistemology of provenance. I explore some works of feminist standpoint theory that begin to address the difficulties of such an epistemology. I then bring Sartre's account of knowledge in the Critique of Dialectical Reason to bear on these difficulties, arguing that his work offers tools for addressing them more adequately.
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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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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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47Merleau-ponty, Hegel and the dialecticJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 7 (2): 96-110. 1976.
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47‘Spaces of Freedom’: Materiality, Mediation and Direct Political Participation in the Work of Arendt and SartreContemporary Political Theory 5 (4): 469-491. 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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34‘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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34The Philosophy Of Simone de Beauvoir (review)International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 154-155. 2003.
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31The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Ambiguity, conversion, resistanceContemporary Political Theory 9 (2): 256. 2010.
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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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27Western 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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26Jean-Paul Sartre. Hated Conscience of His Century (review)Radical Philosophy Review of Books 4 (4): 51-54. 1991.
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24Alterity 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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23Beauvoir’s Time/Our Time: The Renaissance in Simone de Beauvoir StudiesFeminist Studies 31 (2): 286-309. 2005.
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21Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age and Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason The Material Mediations of Age as Lived ExperienceIn Silvia Stoller (ed.), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics, De Gruyter. pp. 89-102. 2014.
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21Living alterities: Phenomenology, embodiment, and raceContemporary Political Theory 15 (1). 2016.
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19Hazel E. Barnes, the story I telll myself: A venture in existential autobiographySartre Studies International 4 (2): 34-39. 1998.
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19Merleau-Ponty and modern politics after anti-humanismContemporary Political Theory 9 (1): 134-136. 2010.
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17Book Review: Politics with Beauvoir: Freedom in the Encounter, by Lori Jo Marso (review)Political Theory 47 (1): 121-126. 2019.
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15Hazel E. Barnes, The Story I Tell Myself: A Venture in Existential AutobiographySartre Studies International 4 34-39. 1998.