
Anonymity and Feminist Identity
Simone de Beauvoir’s Agon and Ours
$491.40
- Hardcover
384 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
Anonymity is a condition that both intrigues and terrifies us. Such emotions reflect historical inequities of power as well as the limits of human cognition and imagination. How do they affect women’s relationships at the emotional, philosophical, and political level? How might they inflect women’s responses to bullying, economic and academic competition, and even philosophical teaching and writing?
Laura Hengehold uses Simone de Beauvoir’s novels and philosophical texts to provide in…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781399545464 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1399545469 |
| Author: | Laura Hengehold |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Imprint: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 0g |
| Dimensions: | 234mm x 156mm |
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About The Author
Laura Hengehold
Laura Hengehold is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA. She has published numerous articles on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of sexuality using perspectives from Continental European and African thinkers. She is the author of The Body Problematic: Kant and Foucault on Political Imagination (Penn State University Press, 2007), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and co-editor of The Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Blackwell/Polity, 2017). She has also edited, co-edited, and translated works of Francophone African philosophy, including authors Jean Godefroy Bidima, Seloua Luste Boulbina, and Dénétem Touam Bona.
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