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Beauvoir-in-America: Understanding, Concrete Experience, and Beauvoir's Appropriation of Heidegger in America Day by Day

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Alexander Ruch
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Abstract

This paper reads Simone de Beauvoir's travel journal America Day by Day for its philosophical content. I argue that this work provides a unique approach to feminist, embodied philosophy, one that has been overlooked by the categorization of her writing into philosophical works and feminist ones. Such an approach, I contend, is enacted here through her use of Heidegger's concept of the everyday to inform her own treatment of understanding and experience.

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Hypatia , Volume 24 , Issue 4 , Fall 2009 , pp. 104 - 129
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Copyright © 2009 by Hypatia, Inc.

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