A3 Book section, Chapters in research books
Simone de Beauvoir : Encroachment, Agency, Embodiment (2024)
Heinämaa, S. (2024). Simone de Beauvoir : Encroachment, Agency, Embodiment. In S. Herrmann, G. Thonhauser, S. Loidolt, T. Matzner, & N. Baratella (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology (pp. 86-96). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197430-11
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Publication details
All authors or editors: Heinämaa, Sara
Parent publication: The Routledge Handbook of Political Phenomenology
Parent publication editors: Herrmann, Steffen; Thonhauser, Gerhard; Loidolt, Sophie; Matzner, Tobias; Baratella, Nils
ISBN: 978-1-032-05409-4
eISBN: 978-1-003-19743-0
Publication year: 2024
Publication date: 12/06/2024
Pages range: 86-96
Number of pages in the book: 502
Publisher: Routledge
Place of Publication: Abingdon
Publication country: United Kingdom
Publication language: English
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003197430-11
Publication open access: Not open
Publication channel open access: Channel is not openly available
Abstract
This chapter offers a new explication of the main parameters of Simone de Beauvoir’s political philosophy. The chapter argues that Beauvoir develops her central political-philosophical concepts—the concepts of encroachment, oppression, and violence—in parallel with her phenomenological ontology and existential ethics. More specifically, it demonstrates that Beauvoir’s understanding of the structures of human embodiment and human action lays the ground for her critique of oppression and her original approach to the philosophical problems of violence. The guiding idea of all her analyses is in her conception of human existence as world driven and futural and thus necessarily intersubjective and fundamentally embodied.
Keywords: violence (activity); political violence; oppression; bodiliness; ethics; political philosophy; existentialism; phenomenology
Free keywords: Beauvoir, Simone de
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Preliminary JUFO rating: 2
