Beauvoir repurposes the Hegelian dialectic to analyze women’s historic oppression
Evidence
In Th e Second Sex, Beauvoir will challenge Sartre’s implicit adoption of the “Master” position in Being and Nothingness and his critique of her portrayal of the Master-Slave relationship. Once more she will turn to the Hegelian dialectic, which, as in her fi rst novel, she will use as a methodological tool in order to help her investigate the historic oppression of women. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 262
Categorization
- XREF: Ties to the reader’s stated purpose: the Second Sex as Beauvoir’s methodological rejoinder to Sartre’s Master-position, central to the influence debate. — connects to: Beauvoir’s The Second Sex applied existentialist method to the history of patriarchy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 666; Beauvoir grounded existential freedom within gendered historical situations — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 684; Beauvoir transformed phenomenological thought by exposing its patriarchal biases — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 85 (+5 more)
Broader Connections
- Beauvoir’s deconstructive rereading of Hegel deploys Derridean différance
#responds-to(0.85) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 268 - Beauvoir innovated by pairing Hegel’s immanence with transcendence only in The Second Sex
#expands(0.80) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 594