Phenomenology and the ethical bases of pluralism

Arendt and Beauvoir on race in the United States

Michael Barber

pp. 149-174

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

Abstract

Though differing in their approach to race in the United States, Hannah Arendt and Simone de Beauvoir work on two different levels of a philosophical-ethical spectrum, paralleling Husserl's distinction between the transcendental and pretheoretical, life-world levels. Each level needs the other in order to realize an authentic sociopolitical pluralism.

Cited authors

Husserl Edmund

Arendt Hannah

de Beauvoir Simone