Somaesthetics and "The Second Sex”: A Pragmatist Reading of a Feminist Classic [trans. Wojciech Małecki] Cover Image

Somaestetyka i "Druga Płeć". Pragmatystyczne odczytanie arcydzieła feminizmu [przeł. Wojciech Małecki]
Somaesthetics and "The Second Sex”: A Pragmatist Reading of a Feminist Classic [trans. Wojciech Małecki]

Author(s): Richard Shusterman
Subject(s): Gender Studies
Published by: Instytut Badań Literackich Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: Somaesthetics; Simone de Beauvoir; Pragmatism; Feminism.

Summary/Abstract: Richard Shusterman explains in his article the character and structure of somatic aesthetics, the philosophical discipline he created. This is followed by his analysis of Simone de Beauvoir’s complex approach to the issue of body in her "Le deuxième sexe", referring to those arguments which might support the pragmatic attitude of somatic aesthetics as well as those recognising the somatic aesthetics’ focus on the body as a threat to feminism

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 1-2
  • Page Range: 173-205
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: Polish