Beauvoir and Plato

the clinic and the cave

Edward Fullbrook

Käte Fullbrook

pp. 53-65

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

Abstract

This essay explores the ways in which Simone de Beauvoir uses Plato's allegory of the cave as a template through which to introduce her concept of embodied consciousness into twentieth-century philosophy.

Cited authors

Plato

de Beauvoir Simone