Beauvoir versus Beauvoir: filosofija, feministinė teorija ir išnykimo politika
Beauvoir versus Beauvoir: Philosophy, Feminist Theory, and the Politics of Extinction

Summary/Abstract: Although Beauvoir identified herself as an author not as a philosopher, and for more than three-quarters of her life, insisted that she was not a feminist, in this paper I explore tensions in The Second Sex between the philosophical Beauvoir and Beauvoir as a pioneering feminist theorist. By situating Beauvoir in relation to “the politics of extinction,” a standard philosophical move that caricatures and dismisses feminism, I analyze the implications of the continuing discrediting of feminist knowledge production by those who accredit themselves as keepers of authoritative knowledge. In treating Beauvoir as a philosopher who changes course, as one who initially positions herself as a keeper of knowledge who polices the borders to keep feminists out but later changes her stance, we can learn something about the politics of extinction and how to move beyond it.

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