Marso Politics with Beauvoir

Freedom in the Encounter
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7284-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

In Politics with Beauvoir Lori Marso treats Simone de Beauvoir's feminist theory and practice as part of her political theory, arguing that freedom is Beauvoir's central concern and that this is best apprehended through the notion of the encounter.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Marso, Lori Jo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Our Beauvoir 1
1. (Re)Encountering The Second Sex 17
Part I. Enemies: Monsters, Men, and Misogynist Art
2. "An Eye for an Eye" with Hannah Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem 41
3. The Marquis de Sade's Bodies in Lars von Trier's Antichrist 67
Part II. Allies: Antinomies of Action in Conditions of Violence
4. Violence, Pathologies, and Resistance in Frantz Fanon 97
5. In Solidarity with Richard Wright 122
Part III. Friends: Conversations that Change the Rules
6. Perverse Protests from Chantal Akerman to Lars von Trier 153
7. Unbecoming Women with Violette Leduc, Rahel Varnhagen, and Margarethe von Trotta 176
Conclusion: A Happy Ending 203
Notes 209
References 235
Index 247

Über Autor(innen)

Lori Jo Marso is Doris Zemurray Stone Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies and Professor of Political Science at Union College, and the author and editor of several books, including W Stands for Women: How the George W. Bush Presidency Shaped a New Politics of Gender, also published by Duke University Press, and Feminist Thinkers and the Demands of Femininity: The Lives and Work of Intellectual Women.