Beauvoir treated the dialectic as a self-transformative process

Evidence

In Th e Second Sex as much as in She Came to Stay, Beauvoir is primarily interested in the dialectic as a process rather than as merely a product. Th e dialectical journey is important because it has enabled her to understand herself as much as it has enabled her to know the Other. — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 265

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Beauvoir’s process-oriented reading of Hegel from a product-oriented one — a useful conceptual discriminator.
• XREF: connects to: Beauvoir transformed phenomenological thought by exposing its patriarchal biases — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre: The Riddle of…, 85; Beauvoir’s philosophy centers on how constraint and freedom shape our becoming — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1027

Broader Connections

• Beauvoir’s philosophy centers on how constraint and freedom shape our becoming #expands (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1027