Beauvoir as situated subject

the ambiguities of life in world war ii france

Kristana Arp

pp. 175-185

in: Lester Embree (ed), The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Berlin, Springer, 2001

Abstract

In her work on existentialist ethics, Pour une moral de l'ambiguïté, Simone de Beauvoir argues that the struggle against oppression sometimes justifies the sacrifice of life. I explore how her position on this issue was influenced by her reactions to events before and during World War II

Cited authors

de Beauvoir Simone