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Expanded Course Description
The Second Sex is Beauvoir’s most important philosophical work, and the book often credited with being the intellectual spark of the international 2nd wave feminist movement. This course will focus on a close reading of the English translation of Le Duexième Sexe, rather than a broad selection of philosophical writings. Particularly, we will consider Beauvoir as an early practitioner of feminist phenomenology. We will situate her work within the broader, emerging tradition of feminist phenomenology, paying particular attention to themes of time, space, affect and imagination. We will consider the difference between a phenomenology of sexual difference and a critical feminist phenomenology, and try to understand what sort of relation Beauvoir might have had to this distinction had she lived long enough to see it emerge. We will pay very close attention to how Beauvoir practices phenomenology, even as she doesn’t have much to say about it explicitly—our goal will to be to come away with a clear understanding of the elements of her practice in order to reflect on and develop our own phenomenological practice.
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