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Women, Hegel, and Recognition in The Second Sex

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Karen Green  and
Nicholas Roffey
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Abstract

This paper develops a new account of Beauvoir's “Hegelianism” and argues that the strand of contemporary interpretation of Beauvoir that seeks to represent her thought in isolation from that of Jean-Paul Sartre constitutes a betrayal of the philosophy of recognition that she derives from Hegel. It underscores the extent to which Beauvoir influenced Sartre's Being and Nothingness and shows that Sartre and Beauvoir both adapted Hegel's ideas and agreed in rejecting his optimism.

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Hypatia , Volume 25 , Issue 2 , Spring 2010 , pp. 376 - 393
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Copyright © 2010 by Karen Green and Nicholas Roffey

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