READINGS | Hegel 7/13

Bernard E. Harcourt

Core Readings:

Simone de Beauvoir, Le Deuxième sexe (Paris: Gallimard, 1949)

Simone de Beauvoir, La Force de l’âge (Paris, Gallimard, 1960)

Simone de Beauvoir, Journal de guerre. Septembre 1939-janvier 1941 (Paris, Gallimard, 1990)

Resources:

Kimberly Hutchings, « Beauvoir and Hegel », p. 187-197, in Laura Hengehold and Nancy Bauer, eds. A Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2017).

Jean-Baptiste Vuillerod, « Le maître et la vassale. Hegel, Beauvoir en miroir », Simone de Beauvoir Studies 34 (2023) 100–120.

Marie-Andrée Charbonneau, « Le Deuxième Sexe et la philosophie: Maître, esclave, ou …? Le Cas Simone De Beauvoir », Simone de Beauvoir Studies, 2000-2001, Vol. 17, Beauvoir in the New Millennium (2000-2001), pp. 7-19

Susan F. Buck-Morss, Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2009)

Alain Badiou, « Maîtres et esclaves chez Hegel », Sud/Nord 2016/2 n° 27, pages 35 à 47, Éditions érès.

 

On Sartre

Core Readings

Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: A Phenomenological Essay on Ontology, trans. Hazel E. Barnes (New York: Washington Square Press, 1992 [1943]), Part III, chs. 1 and 3.

Jean-Paul Sartre, Critique of Dialectical Reason, trans. Alan Sheridan-Smith and Quintin Hoare, 2 vols. (London: Verso, 2004–2006 [1960]).

Jean-Paul Sartre, Notebooks for an Ethics, trans. David Pellauer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992 [1983]).

Jean-Paul Sartre, “Black Orpheus,” in What is Literature? and Other Essays, trans. John MacCombie, ed. and intro. Steven Ungar (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988), p. 289–330.

Jean-Paul Sartre, “Matérialisme et Révolution I. Le mythe révolutionnaire,” Les Temps modernes, 1re année, no. 9 (June 1946): 1537–1563; “Matérialisme et Révolution II (et fin). La philosophie de la révolution,” Les Temps modernes, 1re année, no. 10 (July 1946): 1–32.  Available in English https://brotherwisedispatch.blogspot.com/2018/09/materialism-and-revolution-by-jean-paul.html

Additional Readings

J.A. Podhorodecki, “Self-Certainty and Nothingness: Differences of Situation in Hegel & Sartre,” Philosophia 49, 1671–1679 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11406-020-00313-3

James Schmidt, “Lordship and Bondage in Merleau-Ponty and Sartre,” Political Theory 7, no. 2 (1979): 201–27. http://www.jstor.org/stable/191178.

  1. Storm Heter, “Authenticity and Others: Sartre’s Ethics of Recognition,” Sartre Studies International 12, no. 2 (2006): 17–43. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23511000.

Jennifer Ang Mei Sze, “Whither Hegelian Dialectics in Sartrean Violence?” Sartre Studies International 15, no. 1 (2009): 1–23. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23511193.