Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of InfluenceChristine Daigle, Jacob Golomb While many scholars consider Simone de Beauvoir an important philosopher in her own right, thorny issues of mutual influence between her thought and that of Jean-Paul Sartre still have not been settled definitively. Some continue to believe Beauvoir's own claim that Sartre was the philosopher and she was the follower even though their relationship was far more complex than this proposition suggests. Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb, and an international group of scholars explore the philosophical and literary relationship between Beauvoir and Sartre in this penetrating volume. Did each elaborate a philosophy of his or her own? Did they share a single philosophy? Did the ideas of each have an impact on the other? How did influences develop and what was their nature? Who influenced whom most of all? A crisscrossed picture of mutual intricacies and significant differences emerges from the skillful and sophisticated exchange that takes place here. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
1 Getting the Beauvoir We Deserve | 13 |
Embodiment in Beauvoir and Sartre | 30 |
Beauvoirs Influence on Sartre | 49 |
4 Beauvoir and Sartre on Freedom Intersubjectivity and Normative Justification | 65 |
5 Sartre and Beauvoir on Hegels MasterSlave Dialectic and the Question of the Look | 90 |
6 Beauvoir Sartre and Patriarchys History of Ideas | 116 |
Objective Meanings or Subjective Projections? | 128 |
10 Simone de Beauvoirs Marguerite as a Possible Source of Inspiration for JeanPaul Sartres The Childhood of a Leader | 180 |
Exploring Some Points of Divergence between Beauvoir and Sartre | 189 |
Beauvoir and Sartre Interact from Parody Satire and Tragedy to Manifesto of Liberation | 203 |
13 The Concept of Transcendence in Beauvoir and Sartre | 222 |
14 Freedom FOr the Other | 241 |
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List of Contributors | 271 |
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8 Beauvoir Sartre and the Problem of Alterity | 143 |
Constraint and Judgment in BeauvoirsMoral Essays and The Mandarins | 160 |