The Problem of Sexist Sense
2017 ◽
pp. 25-57
This chapter focuses on the first volume of The Second Sex (“Facts and Myths”) and argues that the real goal of Beauvoir’s text is to prevent the systematic blockage of women’s opportunities for individuation. Like Deleuze’s critique of representation, Beauvoir’s critique of sexist systems of knowledge and politics arose from concerns about the nature of “sense” associated with late Husserlian phenomenology. This chapter also establishes some terminology, asking how a “concept,” a “problem,” “conceptual personae” and a “life” are related in Deleuze’s thought and in Beauvoir’s corpus. The concept of “transcendence” is used as a case study for unpacking these relationships.
2020 ◽
Vol 13
(1)
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pp. 105-129
2021 ◽
Vol 18
(9)
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pp. 4432
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