by Nancy Bauer
Discourse on the Method (Descartes)
Epimenides
essentialism, and antiessentialism
ethics, existentialist
Ethics of Ambiguity, The (Beauvoir), abstractness of, aesthetics in, ambiguity as central concept in, assumption of ambiguity discussed in, Beauvoir’s assessment of, Bergoffen’s interpretation of, criticism of Hegel in, existentialist ethics in, Hegel’s influence on, human types in, intentionality in, love in, optimism in, separateness of persons in, situation in, translation of, women discussed in
Evans, Mary
existentialism, Beauvoir’s relation to, freedom and, misapprehensions about, as nihilism, transcendence and
existentialist ethics
“Feminism and Pragmatism” (Rorty)
feminist philosophy, as a contradiction in terms, and essentialism, and the idea of a standpoint, and rejection of traditional philosophical methods
feminist standpoint philosophy
for-itself. See being-for-itself
Fraser, Nancy
freedom, abrogation of, assumption of, bad faith and, being-for-others and, existentialist view of, of Other, risks
Freud, Sigmund
friendship
Geist, gender. See also sex difference
Gender Trouble (Butler)
generosity
Gilligan, Carol
Hardwick, Elizabeth
Hartsock, Nancy
Hatfield, Gary
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, Beauvoir’s challenge to, Beauvoir’s indebtedness to, Beauvoir’s investment in, optimism of, Other and, and The Philosophy of Right, Sartre’s challenge to, self-certainty, view of, sexism in writings, sublation (aufheben) and, view of freedom. See also appropriation of philosophy; master-slave dialectic; Phenomenology of Spirit
Heidegger, Martin
Heyes, Cressida
Hipparchia’s Choice (Le Doeuff)
Hume, David
Husserl, Edmund, Cartesian Meditations, Paris Lectures
Hyppolite, Jean
ideal ego
immanence, alienation and, master-slave dialectic and
inauthenticity
Inessential Woman (Spelman)
in-itself-for-itself. See also being-for-itself; being-in-itself
intentionality
intersubjectivity
intuition
Irigaray, Luce
Kant, Immanuel
Knopf, Alfred A.
Kojève, Alexandre
Lacan, Jacques
La Force de l’Age (Girard)
Le Doeuff, Michèle
Léon, Céline
liar paradox
life-and-death struggle, Look and, in male-female relationships, Other and, within self, woman and. See also master-slave dialectic
“Look,” the, being-for-itself and, ego and, freedom and, life-and-death struggle and, love and, madness and, mirror-gazing and, objectivity and, paranoia and, separateness of persons and, social relationships and
love
Lundgren-Gothlin, Eva
MacKinnon, Catharine
male-female relations: bad faith in, historical context of, life-and-death struggle in, master-slave dialectic in, mutual dependence in, recognition in, relativity of Other in, risking of life in, Sartre’s theory of
“Manifesto of the”
Marx, Karl
masculinism, attributed to Beauvoir
master-slave dialectic, bad faith in, Beauvoir’s challenge to, Beauvoir’s domestication of, being-for-itself and, desire and, enslavement and, fear of death in, as foil in The Second Sex, immanence and, as implacable, introduction of in The Second Sex, knowledge and, language and, love and, male-female relations and, object and, ontological split and, phases of, recognition in, risking of life in, Sartre’s view of, self-consciousness and, sex difference and, sexuality and, slave’s moral position, tools and, use of pronouns in, woman’s physiology and, work and. See also Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; life-and-death struggle
Mauriac, Claude
Meditations (Descartes), displacement of by Beauvoir, foundations and, introduction to, masculinism in, skepticism in, strategy of
metaphysical isolation
metaphysics, feminist standpoint philosophy and, the ordinary and, as untethered
mind/body split
mirror stage
Mitsein
Moi, Toril
narcissism, alienation and, Freud’s view of, primary, recognition and, secondary
nihilism
No Exit (Sartre)
Nussbaum, Martha
Nye, Andrea
object, being-for-itself and, life-and-death struggle and, master-slave dialectic and, Other as, and subject-object split, transformation of, woman as. See also objectivity
objectivity, applied feminist philosophy and, arrogance and, of Beauvoir, of Descartes, as form of subjectivity, Look and, MacKinnon on, as masculinist concept, philosophy’s commitment to, Sartre’s view of, self-certainty and, skepticism and. See also object
object-relations theory
“On Narcissism” (Freud)
oppression, alienation and, antiessentialist view of, bad faith and, invention of tools and, sex difference as, transcendence and
ordinary, the
“Other,” the, absolute value of, as embodied, freedom of, hostility toward, influence of, life-and-death struggle, Look and, love and, in male-female relationships, misogyny and, as object, ontological status of, recognition of self in, self as, self-certainty and, situation and, as split, subjectivity of, violence and, woman as. See also being-for-others; self-consciousness
paranoia
Paris Lectures (Husserl)
Parshley, Howard
“Personal Note, A: Equal or Different?” (Irigaray)
phenomenology
Phenomenology of Spirit (Hegel), ambiguity and, Kojève’s redaction of, optimism in, recognition in, self-consciousness in, split self in. See also master-slave dialectic
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
philosophy, academic tradition of, activity of, analytic tradition in, Beauvoir’s challenges to, conceived as conceptual tools, continental tradition in, as elitist, conceived as history of failures, male bias in, medieval, as mode of self-transformation, obstinacy in, the ordinary and, and philosophical system-building, refusal of, and self-criticism, skeptical tradition in, and technical terms, traditional methods of. See also appropriation of philosophy; feminist philosophy
Pippin, Robert
Poulain de la Barre, François
Pyrrhus et Cinéas (Beauvoir), appropriation of Hegel in, assumption of subjectivity advocated in, discussion of bad faith in, existentialist terms in, necessity of political struggle expressed in, nihilism discussed in, and the Other, violence discussed in
recognition, ambiguity and, and asymmetrical dependence, conversation and, judgment and, in male-female relations, in master-slave dialectic, narcissism and, reciprocal, seduction and, self-mastery and, sexuality and, woman and
recounting
Rorty, Richard
Roudinesco, Elisabeth
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Sartre, Jean-Paul, and concept of appel (appeal), Beauvoir’s indebtedness to, Beauvoir’s relationship to, and his challenge to Freud, and his challenge to Hegel, human relations, view of, on Jews, and keyhole example, and Les Temps modernes, love, view of, master-slave dialectic and, moral theory and, and No Exit, objectivity and, pessimism in work of, and separateness of persons, sexism of, on situation, truth and, Works: Cahiers pour une Morale, Nausea, No Exit, Notebooks for an Ethics, Transcendence of the Ego. See also appropriation of philosophy; bad faith; Being and Nothingness
Scharff, Robert
Second Sex, The (Beauvoir), Beauvoir’s earlier writings and, biographical facts in, biological considerations in, “Biology,” as challenge to philosophy, condescension toward, contradictions in, criticism of, critique of mind/body split, as derivative of Sart
re, “Destiny,” disagreement with Sartre in, and displacement of Descartes, existentialist ethics and, foundations of, as founding text of contemporary feminist movement, Hegel’s influence on, “History,” individual interests in, introduction to, “Justifications,” “Myths,” and ordinary/philosophical dialectic, Other in, and parallels to cogito, as a philosophy of the erotic, political commitments of, purpose of, reciprocal recognition in, registers of, self-conscious expression in, “Sexual Initiation,” skepticism in, social constructivism in, strategy of, translation of, woman’s condition in, writing style in. See also master-slave dialectic
self: as actor, boundaries of, and individuation, life-and-death struggle within, and being split. See also self-certainty; self-consciousness; subject; subjectivity
self-certainty, individuation and, mirror stage and, objective, Other and, privacy of, subject and
self-consciousness, life as essential to, male, moment of terror, types of. See also consciousness
self-mastery
self-objectification
self-posing (self-positing, se poser)
“Senses and the Fleshless Eye, The” (Hatfield)
sex difference, and biological sex, essentialist view, master-slave dialectic and
sex identity
sexism, Hegel’s, Sartre’s
sexuality, reciprocal recognition and, risk and
shame, being-for-others and
Simone de Beauvoir (Moi)
situation, alienation as, body as, in Ethics of Ambiguity, human condition, Other and, risks of action and, Sartre’s concept of, woman as. See also woman’s condition
skepticism, intellect and, as luxury
Smith, Stevie
social constructivism
Social Contract, The (Rousseau)
solipsism. See also isolation
Spelman, Elizabeth
subject: alienation and, man as, master-slave dialectic and, reciprocal recognition and, self-certainty and, self-objectification and. See also subjectivity
subjectivity, assumption of, and intersubjectivity, the Look and, objectivity as form of, of Other. See also subject
sublation (aufheben)
Toward a Feminist Theory of the State (MacKinnon)
transcendence: of desires, existentialism and, vs. immanence, work as
Treatise on Human Nature (Hume)
truth
universality
Vintges, Karen
Voltaire
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
woman: as animal type of life, as being-for-men, as concept, essence of, as intermediary, life-and-death struggle and, as life-giver, as object, as Other, reciprocal recognition and, risk and, sexuality and. See also woman’s condition
woman’s condition, alienation and, and economics, Epimenides’ paradox and, in Ethics of Ambiguity, and the question of the existence of women, philosophy and. See also situation; woman
Woolf, Virginia
work: productive, as transcendence