The Second SexThe essential masterwork that has provoked and inspired generations of men and women. “From Eve’s apple to Virginia Woolf’s room of her own, Beauvoir’s treatise remains an essential rallying point, urging self-sufficiency and offering the fruit of knowledge.” —Vogue |
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... existence : along with the economic risk , she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help . Indeed , beside every individual's claim to assert himself as subject - an ethical claim - lies the ...
... existence : along with the economic risk , she eludes the metaphysical risk of a freedom that must invent its goals without help . Indeed , beside every individual's claim to assert himself as subject - an ethical claim - lies the ...
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... existence than its expansion toward an indefinitely open future . Every time transcendence lapses into immanence , there is degradation of existence into " in - itself , " of ... existence experiences his existence as an 16 FACTS AND MYTHS.
... existence than its expansion toward an indefinitely open future . Every time transcendence lapses into immanence , there is degradation of existence into " in - itself , " of ... existence experiences his existence as an 16 FACTS AND MYTHS.
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Simone De Beauvoir. vidual concerned with justifying his existence experiences his existence as an indefinite need to transcend himself . But what singularly defines the situation of woman is that being , like all humans , an autonomous ...
Simone De Beauvoir. vidual concerned with justifying his existence experiences his existence as an indefinite need to transcend himself . But what singularly defines the situation of woman is that being , like all humans , an autonomous ...
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... existence - copulation . " 3 And a little further along , " The process consists in this , that they become in reality what they are in themselves , namely , one genus , the same subjective vitality . " And Hegel then declares that in ...
... existence - copulation . " 3 And a little further along , " The process consists in this , that they become in reality what they are in themselves , namely , one genus , the same subjective vitality . " And Hegel then declares that in ...
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... existence calls for revision of the notions of necessity and contingency . " Existence has no fortuitous attributes , no content which does not contribute towards giving it its form ; it does not give admittance to any pure fact because ...
... existence calls for revision of the notions of necessity and contingency . " Existence has no fortuitous attributes , no content which does not contribute towards giving it its form ; it does not give admittance to any pure fact because ...
Contents
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Chapter 1 | 71 |
Chapter 3 | 90 |
Chapter 4 | 104 |
Chapter 5 | 126 |
Introduction | 279 |
Chapter 5 | 439 |
Chapter 8 | 599 |
From Maturity to Old Age | 619 |
Chapter to Womans Situation and Character | 638 |
The Narcissist | 667 |
The Woman in Love | 683 |
The Mystic | 709 |
Chapter 1 | 159 |
Chapter 2 | 214 |
Claudel or the Handmaiden of the Lord | 237 |
Chapter 3 | 266 |
The Independent Woman | 721 |
Conclusion | 753 |
Selected Sources | 767 |
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