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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Page 10
... freedom that must invent its goals without help . Indeed , beside every individual's claim to assert himself as subject - an ethical claim - lies the temptation to flee freedom and to make himself into a thing : it is a pernicious path ...
... freedom that must invent its goals without help . Indeed , beside every individual's claim to assert himself as subject - an ethical claim - lies the temptation to flee freedom and to make himself into a thing : it is a pernicious path ...
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... freedom only by perpetual surpassing toward other freedoms ; there is no other justification for present existence than its expansion toward an indefinitely open future . Every time transcendence lapses into immanence , there is ...
... freedom only by perpetual surpassing toward other freedoms ; there is no other justification for present existence than its expansion toward an indefinitely open future . Every time transcendence lapses into immanence , there is ...
Page 17
... freedom , she discovers and chooses herself in a world where men force her to assume herself as Other : an attempt is made to freeze her as an object and doom her to immanence , since her transcendence will be forever transcended by ...
... freedom , she discovers and chooses herself in a world where men force her to assume herself as Other : an attempt is made to freeze her as an object and doom her to immanence , since her transcendence will be forever transcended by ...
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... freedom would be to reject the possibility of explaining these disturbing concordances . But the idea of freedom is not incompatible with the existence of certain constants . If the psychoanalytical method is often productive in spite ...
... freedom would be to reject the possibility of explaining these disturbing concordances . But the idea of freedom is not incompatible with the existence of certain constants . If the psychoanalytical method is often productive in spite ...
Page 59
... freedom . We think she has to choose between the affirmation of her transcendence and her alienation as object ; she is not the plaything of contradictory drives ; she devises solutions that have an ethical hierarchy among them ...
... freedom . We think she has to choose between the affirmation of her transcendence and her alienation as object ; she is not the plaything of contradictory drives ; she devises solutions that have an ethical hierarchy among them ...
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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