Beauvoir later judged her Hegelian framework in The Second Sex too idealistic.

Evidence

Beauvoir in Th e Second Sex, on the contrary, analyses the Master-Slave relation from the perspective of the female who has historically incarnated certain characteristics of Hegel’s Slave. However, in the third volume of her autobiography, Th e Force of Circumstance, Beauvoir refl ects that the Hegelian framework of Th e Second Sex based on the a priori categories of male-subject and female-Other was too idealistic, and that with hindsight she would have introduced a more materialistic framework. She refers to the Sartrean concepts of need and scarcity that he introduces in the Critique of Dialectical Reason. Beauvoir maintains that this modifi cation would not have aff ected the development of volume two of Th e Second Sex. Yet I have argued that the Hegelian distinction between self and Other permeates the entirety of the work. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 281

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: what exactly would a materialist revision of The Second Sex have looked like, and would it really have left volume two untouched as Beauvoir claimed?
• XREF: Connects to Beauvoir’s autobiographical accounts and to the broader debate on her philosophical divergence from Sartre’s early existentialism. — connects to: Beauvoir later judged her early ethics too individualistic and abstract — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 479

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir later judged her early ethics too individualistic and abstract #corroborates (0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 479