Simone de Beauvoir on sexual difference

Sara Heinämaa

Jyväskylän yliopisto

pp. 217-229

in: Sebastian Luft, Ruth Hagengruber (eds), Women phenomenologists on social ontology, Berlin, Springer, 2018

Abstract

In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir clarifies her philosophical approach to embodiment and sexual difference by writing: "However, it is said, in the perspective which I adopt—that of Heidegger, Sartre and Merleau-Ponty—that if the body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp upon the world and an outline of our projects."

Cited authors

Merleau-Ponty Maurice

Heidegger Martin

Sartre Jean-Paul

de Beauvoir Simone