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INDEX
alienation, for-it-self and, in-itself and, narcissism and, oppression and
ambiguity, assumption of, erotic love and, recognition and, subject-object split. See also Ethics of Ambiguity, The (Beauvoir)
antiessentialism
appeal (appel)
appropriation of philosophy, by Beauvoir, Beauvoir’s appropriation of Descartes, Beauvoir’s appropriation of Hegel, Beauvoir’s appropriation of Sartre, Husserl’s appropriation of Descartes, Sartre’s appropriation of Beauvoir, Sartre’s appropriation of Hegel
Aristotle
arrogance/arrogation
aufheben (sublation)
authority, philosophical, relocation of to human mind
bad faith, freedom and, in male-female relations, in master-slave relationship, oppression and
Bair, Deidre
Beauvoir, Simone de: abstractness of early works, arrogation of authority, biologism attributed to, challenges to Sartre, contradictions in work of, critical condescension toward, criticism of, as disciple of Sartre, essays in Les Temps modernes, feminist philosophy and, Hegel’s influence on, on herse
lf as philosopher, homophobia, accusations of, indebtedness to Sartre, as intellectual woman, masculinism attributed to, on motherhood, as mother of modern feminism, as spokesperson for Sartre, philosophical milieu, philosophical originality, philosophical systembuilding and, as representative woman, self-criticism, and skepticism, accused of white middle-class Eurocentric bias, on writing The Second Sex, Works. See also Ethics of Ambiguity, The; Pyrrhus et Cinéas; Second Sex, The; The Force of Circumstance, “La Femme et la Création,” L’Existentialisme et la Sagesse des Nations, L’Invitée. See also appropriation of philosophy
Being and Nothingness (Sartre), Beauvoir’s dissatisfaction with, and the “The Look,” and love, and the master-slave dialectic, moral relations in, paranoia, view of. See also bad faith; being-for-itself; being-for-others; Sartre, Jean-Paul
Being and Time (Heidegger)
being-for-itself, alienation and, individuation and, life-and-death struggle and, the Look and, master-slave dialectic and. See also being-in-itself; subject
being-for-others, freedom and, shame and
being-in-itself, alienation and, thing-in-itself and. See also object
Bergoffen, Debra
biological sex. See also sex difference
Bodies That Matter (Butler)
body, and mind/body split, as situation
Bordo, Susan
Butler, Judith
“Cartesian Masculinization of Thought, The” (Bordo)
Cartesian Meditations (Husserl)
Cavell, Stanley
certainty. See self-certainty
Chodorow, Nancy
Claim of Reason, The (Cavell)
cogito, in The Second Sex
consciousness: autonomous, hostility toward Other and, reflective, unhappy, unreflective. See also self-consciousness
death, fear of
Descartes, René, Beauvoir’s displacement of, “evil demon” argument, Discourse on the Method, feminist criticism of, life circumstances, objectivity, philosophy vs. ordinary life, skepticism and, solipsism and, reason and. See also Meditations
desire, master-slave dialectic and, transcendence of, unreflective consciousness and
Dinnerstein, Dorothy