Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-42gr6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-23T10:41:14.976Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Reciprocity and Friendship in Beauvoir's Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Julie K. Ward
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

For Simone de Beauvoir, the opposition of subjects is not inescapable as it may be resolved by a relation of reciprocal recognition. I discuss formulations of reciprocity and the problem of the other as outlined in Beauvoir's 1927 diary and her memoir, La Force de l'âge, then turn to examine the account of lesbianism in Le Deuxième sexe.

Type
Research Article
Information
Hypatia , Volume 14 , Issue 4: Special Issue: The Philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir , Fall 1999 , pp. 36 - 49
Copyright
Copyright © 1999 by Hypatia, Inc.

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

de Beauvoir, Simone. 1943. L'invitée. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
de Beauvoir, Simone. 1949. Le Deuxième sexe. 2 vols. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
de Beauvoir, Simone. 1954. She came to stay. Trans. Moyse, R. and Senhouse, R.Cleveland: World Publishing.Google Scholar
de Beauvoir, Simone. 1960. La Force de l'âge. Paris: Gallimard.Google Scholar
de Beauvoir, Simone. 1962. The prime of life. Trans. Green, P.Cleveland: World Publishing.Google Scholar
de Beauvoir, Simone. 1989. The second sex. Trans. Parshley, H. M.New York: Vintage.Google Scholar
Bergoffen, Debra B. 1997. The philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir: Gendered phenomenologies, erotic generosities. Albany: State University of New York Press.Google Scholar
Lundgren‐Gothlin, Eva. 1996. Sex and existence: Simone de Beauvoir's “The second sex.” Trans. Schenk, Linda. Hanover: Wesleyan University Press.Google Scholar
Simons, Margaret A. 1992. Lesbian connections: Simone de Beauvoir and feminism. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 18 (1): 136–61.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Simons, Margaret A. 1995. “The second sex”: From Marxism to radical feminism. In Feminist interpretations of Simone de Beauvoir, ed. Simons, Margaret A.University Park: Penn State Press.Google Scholar
Simons, Margaret A. 1999. Beauvoir and “The second sex”: Feminism, race, and the origins of existentialism. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield.Google Scholar
Simons, Margaret A. Forthcoming. From murder to morality: The development of Beauvoir's ethics. International Studies in Philosophy.Google Scholar