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Simone de Beauvoiris Phenomenology of Sexual Difference
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 14, Number 4, Fall 1999
- pp. 114-132
- 10.1353/hyp.2005.0029
- Article
- Additional Information
The paper argues that the philosophical starting point of Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex is the phenomenological understanding of the living body, developed by Edmund Husserl and Maurice Merleau-Ponty. It shows that Beauvoir's notion of philosophy stems from the phenomenological interpretation of Cartesianism which emphasizes the role of evidence, self-criticism, and dialogue.