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Pornutopia -- Lady power -- What philosophy can't teach us about sexual objectification -- Beauvoir on the allure of self-objectification -- How to do things with pornography -- What is to be done with Austin? -- On philosophical authority -- Getting things right -- Reel girls and real girls: What becomes of women on film?

In Nancy Bauer's view, most feminist philosophers are content to work within theoretical frameworks that are false to human beings' everyday experiences. Here she models a new way to write about pornography, women's self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena, and in doing so she raises basic questions about philosophy

In Nancy Bauer's view, most feminist philosophers are content to work within theoretical frameworks that are false to human beings' everyday experiences. Here she models a new way to write about pornography, women's self-objectification, hook-up culture, and other contemporary phenomena, and in doing so she raises basic questions about philosophy.

In the introduction to The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir notes that "a man never begins by establishing himself as an individual of a certain sex: his being a man poses no problem." Nancy Bauer begins her book by asking: "Then what kind of a problem does being a woman pose?" Bauer's aim is to show that in answering this question The Second Sex dramatizes the extent to which being a woman poses a philosophical problem.This book is a call for philosophers as well as feminists to turn, or return to, The Second Sex. Bauer shows that Beauvoir's magnum opus, written a quarter-century before the dev

Résumé
Comment lire la revendication de Simone de Beauvoir, dans Le Deuxième Sexe, d'être représentative du concept de « femme » ? Déplaçant la question cartésienne « Qu'est-ce qu'un homme ? », répondant « Je suis » à la question « Qu'est-ce qu'une femme ? », Beauvoir fait du concept de « femme » le fondement d'une dialectique du quotidien et du métaphysique, en plus de s'arroger une autorité philosophique neuve. Dès lors, lire Le Deuxième Sexe en parallèle des Méditations de Descartes, c'est lire Beauvoir découvrant un cogito corporel.

"Stanley Cavell was one of the most distinguished and wide-ranging philosophers of his time. This posthumous volume assembles an array of writings that Cavell left behind, synthesizing into a cohesive intellectual vision unpublished works on modernity, music, skepticism, psychoanalysis, anthropology, tragedy, and the human voice"--