TY - BOOK AU - Card,Claudia TI - The Cambridge companion to Simone de Beauvoir SN - 0521794293 AV - B2430.B344 .C36 2003 2430.B344 C36 2003 PY - 2003/// CY - Cambridge, U.K PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Beauvoir, Simone de, 1908-1986 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents; Introduction / Claudia Card --Beauvoir's place in philosophical thought / Barbara S. Andrew --Reading Simone de Beauvoir with Martin Heidegger / Eva Gothlin --The body as instrument and as expression / Sara Heina�maa --Beauvoir and Merleau-Ponty on ambiguity / Monika Langer --Bergson's influence on Beauvoir's philosophical methodology / Margaret A. Simons --Philosophy in Beauvoir's fiction / Mary Sirridge --Complicity and slavery in The Second Sex / Susan James --Beauvoir on Sade / Judith Butler--Beauvoir and feminism / Susan J. Brison--Life-story in Beauvoir's memoirs / Miranda Fricker --Beauvoir on the ambiguity of evil / Robin May Schott --Simone de Beauvoir / Debra B. Bergoffen --Beauvoir and biology / Moira Gatens --Beauvoir's Old Age / Penelope Deutscher N2 - Simone de Beauvoir was a philosopher and writer of notable range and influence whose work is central to feminist theory, French existentialism, and contemporary moral and social philosophy. The essays in this volume examine all the major aspects of her thought ER -