Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age : : Gender, Ethics, and Time / / Silvia Stoller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Complete English Language 2000-2014 PART1
• TeilnehmendeR: Stoller, Silvia,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (255 p.)

Age and aging are pressing social-political issues. Yet, philosophers still have not paid sufficient attention to one of the major explorations of this topic, Simone de Beauvoir's seminal work The Coming of Age (1970). For much too long, it has been overshadowed by her other groundbreaking work, The Second Sex (1949). Now, for the first time, this volume focuses on Beauvoir's essay on old age and critically explores its significance from a phenomenological and feminist perspective. International Beauvoir scholars and renowned feminist phenomenologists from Europe and North America offer a unique look at one of the 20th century's most outstanding existential-philosophical studies on age and aging. Thematically, the articles and short comments collected in this volume cover three main issues which are crucial with respect to an investigation of Beauvoir's study on age: gender, ethics, and time. The volume essentially contributes to Beauvoir studies, aging studies, cultural and gender studies, feminist theory, phenomenology, and existential philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Table of Contents -- Beauvoir's The Coming of Age / Stoller, Silvia -- Part One: Age and Gender -- The Sex of Age and the Age of Sex The Compressions of Life / Deutscher, Penelope -- Gender, Age, and Passivity Comment on Penelope Deutscher / Kadi, Ulrike -- The Myth of Woman Meets the Myth of Old Age An Alienating Encounter with the Aging Female Body / Weiss, Gail -- Age as a Problem for Both Sexes Comment on Gail Weiss / Weiberg, Anja -- The Poetry of Habit Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on Aging Embodiment / Fielding, Helen A. -- Are Poetic Habits Particular to the Aged? Comment on Helen A. Fielding / Rodier, Kristin -- Part Two: Age and Ethics -- Beauvoir's The Coming of Age and Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason The Material Mediations of Age as Lived Experience / Kruks, Sonia -- Habits Shifting Into Projects Comment on Sonia Kruks / Schäfer, Elisabeth -- The Other Without and the Other Within The Alterity of Aging and the Aged in Beauvoir's The Coming of Age / Fisher, Linda -- Fear of Old Age Comment on Linda Fisher Comment on Linda Fisher / Vasterling, Veronica -- The Dignity of Finitude / Bergoffen, Debra -- Different Finite Bodies Comment on Debra Bergoffen / Postl, Gertrude -- Letting Go the Weight of the Past Beauvoir and the Joy of Existence / Olkowski, Dorothea -- Ethics and Nature Comment on Dorothea Olkowski / Halsema, Annemie -- Part Three: Age and Time -- Transformations of Old Age Selfhood, Normativity, and Time / Heinämaa, Sara -- Revisioning Classical Phenomenology Comment on Sara Heinämaa / Mann, Bonnie -- We in the Other, and the Child in Us The Intersection of Time in Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty / Stoller, Silvia -- Towards a Gerontological Ethics of Existence? Comment on Silvia Stoller / Borren, Marieke -- Age and Future Phenomenological Paths of Optimism / Schües, Christina -- Ambiguous Future Comment on Christina Schües / Stawarska, Beata -- Contributors -- Index of Names