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Simone de Beauvoir's philosophy of age : gender, ethics, and time /

International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from North America and Europe offer a unique look at one of the most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. The articles cover three main issues: gender, ethics, and time. This volume offers valuable cont...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Stoller, Silvia (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Acknowledgments; Beauvoir's The Coming of Age; Part One: Age and Gender; The Sex of Age and the Age of Sex. The Compressions of Life; Gender, Age, and Passivity. Comment on Penelope Deutscher; The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age. An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female Body; Age as a Problem for Both Sexes.Comment on Gail Weiss; The Poetry of Habit. Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Aging Embodiment; Are Poetic Habits Particular to the Aged?.Comment on Helen A. Fielding; Part Two: Age and Ethics.
  • Beauvoir's The Coming of Age and Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason. The Material Mediations of Age as Lived ExperienceHabits Shifting Into Projects. Comment on Sonia Kruks; The Other Without and the Other Within. The Alterity of Aging and the Aged in Beauvoir's The Coming of Age; Fear of Old Age. Comment on Linda Fisher; The Dignity of Finitude; Different Finite Bodies. Comment on Debra Bergoffen; Letting Go the Weight of the Past. Beauvoir and the Joy of Existence; Ethics and Nature. Comment on Dorothea Olkowski; Part Three: Age and Time.
  • Transformations of Old Age. Selfhood, Normativity, and TimeRevisioning Classical Phenomenology. Comment on Sara Heinämaa; We in the Other, and the Child in Us. The Intersection of Time in Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty; Towards a Gerontological Ethics of Existence?.Comment on Silvia Stoller; Age and Future. Phenomenological Paths of Optimism; Ambiguous Future.Comment on Christina Schües; Contributors; Index of Names.