SDB Flashcards
Nature
She is practical, transformative, humanist
- going in we had ideas about what philosophy is, and she questions those
She is not an idealist [defines philosophy as systems building- she isn’t a philosophy],
She is not speculative, She is not metaphysical
Method
sociological / philosophical, mimetic?
- socio: makes conclusions on society based on lived experiences
Phenomenological,Existential, marxist/socialist, humanist, feminist, dialectical [Hegel]
existentialism: Girls no longer want to be a child, but don’t want to be an adult- not children but they want to have sovereignty they had when they were children. Want to be adult because they are becoming adults, but not because they will lose sovereignty
Sdb says that young women do not accept destiny nature and society assign, but she doesn’t do much to reject it- she is too divided internally to enter into combat with the world- escapes reality symbolically
Many of the ways women feel at this point in their lives are matched by a high level of anxiety
Comes back to existential notion that we are free and because we are free we have these choices in life and there is no way to know how to make them, yet they have lifelong repercussions and we have to take responsibility for making them
She is doomed to bad faith
phen:
This is an example of phenomenology because SDB is not seeking an answer to the content of the femine essence, but is rather exploring the ontological status of femininity by analyzing the meaning and foundations of Audrey’s lived experiences. This is the phenomenological method defined by H and MP, who says we must suspend the natural attitude that we are subjects in a world of objects. SDB investigates the common basis of lived experience for this phenomenological same goal; to achieve consciousness of the meaning of being
Function
Empowering [for women]
Progressive- changes in society
Value
v. valuable for her and m.p and sartre
Value
v. valuable for her and m.p and sartre
