Beauvoir and Western Thought from Plato to Butler

Index

241 index 1844 Manuscripts (Marx), 95, 99 A Note on Time, Eternity, and the Concept (kojève), 105 a priori, 56, 59, 75, 83, 88 abortion rights, 135 absolute, the, Beauvoir’s view of, 4, 13n4, 18, 39, 111, 119–20; hegel’s 20, 118; and masculine self-conceptions, 179; and Plato, 23; and Sade, 83 absolute sovereignty 75, 80, 83, 84, 87 absurdity, 4, 6, 49, 68, 118, 154, 193 actualization, 103, 105, 106 aesthetic, 125, in Beauvoir and Plato, 16, 18, 22, 23, 31n6; in hooks’ thought, 227, 238; and Merleau-Ponty, 176–177; in rousseau’s aesthetics, 43; women’s bodies and, 142n7 africa, 111 african-american, 229, 230, 238 age, 6, 7, 12, 47, 86, 113, 168 Age of Discretion, The (Beauvoir), 112 algren, nelson, 212 Aline et Valcour (Sade), 81 allen, Beverly, 85 ambiguity, as desire, 177–183; as embodiment , 126, 221; and ethics, 65, 69, 75, 79, 87, 118; and gender, 213; and human existence, 2, 9, 18, 119, 219–20; and Merleau-Ponty, 11, 172–86; and perception , 173–77 187n5; and philosophy, 4, 5, 8, 18–20, 22; and precariousness, 12; 213, 215–17, 222–25, and violence, 219–22 ambiguous freedom, 82 America Day by Day (Beauvoir), 168 American Declaration of Independence, The, 86 Ancient Society (Morgan), 94 aristotle, 15, 144n18 arp, kristana, 71n6, 72n14 art, in Beauvoir and Plato, 15–18, 20–23, 31n2, 33n19; Bergson’s views on, 155; in Camus, 122n13; and childbirth, 200, rousseau’s views on, 43, 53n16; and work, 117, 206 asia Minor, 111 asian Philosophy, 201, 207n5 Aucassin et Nicolette, 112 auschwitz, 80 authentic existence, 103, 178 authoritarianism, 5 autonomy, 184, 206; in Beauvoir’s ethics, 9, 56, 67, 70; kantian idea of, 58–59, 63, 71n11; and women’s situation, 107 bad faith, Beauvoir’s view of 7; and Beauvoir ’s ethics, 62, 65–68, 72n15, 221; and Bergson, 11, 153, 158, 161–66; and the desire to be, 180–82, 187n8; in She Came to Stay, 163–166; in WhenThings of Spirit Come First, 161–64 Bair, Deirdre, 17, 31n8, 56, 230, 232, 233 Bataille, Georges, 44, 45, 52n8, 81, 119 Bauer, nancy, 41 becoming, in Bergson, 158; and MerleauPonty , 143n12; women’s, 11, 139, 168, 191–94, 197–200, 204–06, 213, 214 “Being and frumpiness”, 212, 234 Being and Nothingness (Sartre), 60, 156, 178, 184 242 inDe x being-for-itself, 178–82, 184, 187n8, 188n8 being-for-others, 172, 179, 184 being-in-itself, 62, 178–82 Beloved (Morrison), 231 Benjamin, Jessica, 156 Bergoffen, Debra, 9, 31n6, 65, 71n6, 75, 76, 187n7, 207n4, Bergson, henri, 1, 10, 11, 71n12, 153–66, 168 Berkeley, George, 171 Bernard, Claude, 157 Between East and West (irigaray), 201–02 Bible, the, 154, 166 Bibliothèque Nationale, 5, 153 Birth ofTragedy,The (nietzsche), 15–17, 119 Bodies that Matter (Butler), 213 Bollinger, laurel, 202 Boupacha case, the, 9, 79, 80 bourgeois, 93, 96 Breton, andré, 161 Brownmiller, Susan, 85 Burnham, James, 96 Butler, Judith, 1, 11–12; as existentialist, 225n4; and gender, 225n3; and precariousness , 215–219, 221–25; relation to Beauvoir, 213–15; and repetition, 116, 211 Cahiers de jeunesse: 1926–1930, 153 Cahiers du Sud, 173 Camus, albert , 116 Capital, Das (Marx), 94–95 capitalism, 97 Cartesian, 174, 184, 186, 213, 214 Casey, edward S., 174 categorical, in morality, 57, 59, 62, 66–67, 69; and pacifism 221, 222, 225 categorical imperative, 55 Catholic Church, 7 Cervantes, Miguel de, 17 Chanter, tina, 211, 212 childbirth, 133, 199, 200, 211 class, 7, 105; and Marx, 10, 93, 94, 96–99; and gender, 37, 41, 45, 47; and Sade, 77–79, 83; intersection with race and gender, 230, 233–35 class struggle, 93, 96–99 Claudel, Paul, 161 Cold War, the, 91, 96 collective, and the festival, 36, 39, 42, 44, 45, 50, 52n12; happiness, 60; and sovereign rights, 77–78, 85 Communism 91, 96, 97 Communist Manifesto, The (Marx) 93, 96 Communist Party, the 91, 93 Confessions (rousseau), 37 consciousness, 7, 126, 131; Beauvoir’s view of, 64–65, 68, 69, 107–108; and Bergson, 154–155, 158; embodied, 134; and gender, 196, 214, 233; non-positing, 175; of the other, 128, 156–158, 162–67; relation to self-consciousness, 105, 108, 179; revolutionary, 93 conventional self, 154 corporeal vulnerability, 12, 215, 216 Creative Evolution (Bergson), 165 Critique of Practical Reason (kant), 57, 58, 63 daimon, 26 Damrosch, leo, 43, 44, 50 Davis, angela, 233 de Gandillac, Maurice 228 deep self, 11, 153...