Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Age: Gender, Ethics

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Boston: De Gruyter (2014)
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International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from North America and Europe offer a unique look at one of the most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. The articles cover three main issues: gender, ethics, and time. This volume offers valuable contributions to Beauvoir studies, aging studies, cultural and gender studies, feminist theory, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.

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B2430.B344.S565 2014

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9783110279122   9783110339147   3110279126   3110481723   3110339153   3110339145

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10.1515/9783110339147

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Acknowledgments.Silvia Stoller
Table of Contents.  (pages IX-XII)Silvia Stoller
Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age.  (pages 1-26)Silvia Stoller
The Sex of Age and the Age of Sex The Compressions of Life.  (pages 29-42)Penelope Deutscher
Gender, Age, and Passivity Comment on Penelope Deutscher.  (pages 43-46)Ulrike Kadi
The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female Body.  (pages 47-64)Gail Weiss
Age as a Problem for Both Sexes Comment on Gail Weiss.  (pages 65-68)Anja Weiberg
The Poetry of Habit: Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Aging Embodiment.  (pages 69-82)Helen A. Fielding
Are Poetic Habits Particular to the Aged? Comment on Helen A. Fielding.  (pages 83-86)Kristin Rodier
Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age and Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason The Material Mediations of Age as Lived Experience.  (pages 89-102)Sonia Kruks
Habits Shifting Into Projects Comment on Sonia Kruks.  (pages 103-106)Elisabeth Schäfer
The Other Without and the Other Within The Alterity of Aging and the Aged in Beauvoir’s The Coming of Age.  (pages 107-122)Linda Fisher
Fear of Old Age Comment on Linda Fisher Comment on Linda Fisher.  (pages 123-126)Veronica Vasterling
The Dignity of Finitude.  (pages 127-142)Debra Bergoffen
Different Finite Bodies Comment on Debra Bergoffen.  (pages 143-146)Gertrude Postl
Letting Go the Weight of the Past Beauvoir and the Joy of Existence.  (pages 147-160)Dorothea Olkowski
Ethics and Nature Comment on Dorothea Olkowski.  (pages 161-164)Annemie Halsema
Transformations of Old Age: Selfhood, Normativity, and Time.  (pages 167-87)Sara Heinämaa
Revisioning Classical Phenomenology Comment on Sara Heinämaa.  (pages 191-194)Bonnie Mann
We in the Other, and the Child in Us The Intersection of Time in Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty.  (pages 195-210)Silvia Stoller
Towards a Gerontological Ethics of Existence? Comment on Silvia Stoller.  (pages 211-214)Marieke Borren
Age and Future Phenomenological Paths of Optimism.  (pages 215-230)Christina Schües
Ambiguous Future Comment on Christina Schües.  (pages 231-234)Beata Stawarska
Contributors.  (pages 235-242)Silvia Stoller
Index of Names.  (pages 243-244)Silvia Stoller

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