Between the ethical and the political

the difference of ambiguity

Debra Bergoffen

pp. 187-203

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

Abstract

Taking up Beauvoir's theories of intentionality and ambiguity, largue that patriarcy misreads the relationship between the ethical and the political, that we need to reconsider this relationship and that a just politics of liberation must remember its debt to the ethical moment of the gift.

Cited authors

de Beauvoir Simone