Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age

Published by De Gruyter 2014

Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age

Gender, Ethics, and Time

Edited by: Silvia Stoller

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110339147

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Age and aging are pressing social-political issues. Yet, philosophers still have not paid sufficient attention to one of the major explorations of this topic, Simone de Beauvoir’s seminal work The Coming of Age (1970). For much too long, it has been overshadowed by her other groundbreaking work, The Second Sex (1949). Now, for the first time, this volume focuses on Beauvoir's essay on old age and critically explores its significance from a phenomenological and feminist perspective. International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from Europe and North America offer a unique look at one of the 20th century’s most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. Thematically, the articles and short comments collected in this volume cover three main issues which are crucial with respect to an investigation of Beauvoir's study on age: gender, ethics, and time. The volume essentially contributes to Beauvoir studies, aging studies, cultural and gender studies, feminist theory, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.

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Silvia Stoller, University of Vienna, Austria.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age Silvia Stoller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part One: Age and Gender
The Sex of Age and the Age of Sex The Compressions of Life Penelope Deutscher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
Gender, Age, and Passivity Comment on Penelope Deutscher Ulrike Kadi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female Body Gail Weiss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Age as a Problem for Both Sexes Comment on Gail Weiss Anja Weiberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	65
The Poetry of Habit Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Aging Embodiment Helen A. Fielding Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
Are Poetic Habits Particular to the Aged? Comment on Helen A. Fielding Kristin Rodier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
Part Two: Age and Ethics
Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age and Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason The Material Mediations of Age as Lived Experience Sonia Kruks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
Habits Shifting Into Projects Comment on Sonia Kruks Elisabeth Schäfer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
The Other Without and the Other Within The Alterity of Aging and the Aged in Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age Linda Fisher Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Fear of Old Age Comment on Linda Fisher Comment on Linda Fisher Veronica Vasterling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
The Dignity of Finitude Debra Bergoffen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Different Finite Bodies Comment on Debra Bergoffen Gertrude Postl Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
Letting Go the Weight of the Past Beauvoir and the Joy of Existence Dorothea Olkowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	147
Ethics and Nature Comment on Dorothea Olkowski Annemie Halsema Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	161
Part Three: Age and Time
Transformations of Old Age Selfhood, Normativity, and Time Sara Heinämaa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
Revisioning Classical Phenomenology Comment on Sara Heinämaa Bonnie Mann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
We in the Other, and the Child in Us The Intersection of Time in Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty Silvia Stoller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Towards a Gerontological Ethics of Existence? Comment on Silvia Stoller Marieke Borren Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Age and Future Phenomenological Paths of Optimism Christina Schües Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Ambiguous Future Comment on Christina Schües Beata Stawarska Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index of Names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	243

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Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars, institutes, libraries
Pages
- Front matter: 11
- Main content: 244
Keywords: Simone de Beauvoir; gender studies; feminist philosophy

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Published: April 1, 2014
ISBN: 9783110339147

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Published: March 31, 2014
ISBN: 9783110279122

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Published: June 20, 2016
ISBN: 9783110481723