Acta Structuralica

international journal for structuralist research

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147206

Between the ethical and the political

the difference of ambiguity

Debra Bergoffen(Department of Cultural Studies, George Washington University)

pp. 187-203

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.

Publication details

Published in:

Embree Lester (2001) The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 187-203

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9753-1_11

Full citation:

Bergoffen Debra (2001) „Between the ethical and the political: the difference of ambiguity“, In: L. Embree (ed.), The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer, 187–203.