About the Research group
This research group aims at exploring the multiple intersections of the work of Simone de Beauvoir and Marxist thought. We aim to tackle questions of intellectual influence, historical situatedness, constructive dialogue and critical dispute, mutual conceptual information, philosophical (in)compatibility, convergence and complementarity, and more...
We meet once a month online to discuss topics determined by the participants. A variety of formats are possible: reading group style discussions, open discussions of a given topic, presentation of one's work, discussion of possible common future projects...
We aim to create a safer space for the sharing of knowledge and ideas and to foster an open discussion, avoiding hierarchies (of knowledge, status, institutional ones, etc.) as much as possible.
For more information on the RG, please see the following document.
To join the mailing list, write to: Anna Ceschi ([email protected]) or Katja Čičigoj ([email protected]).
We meet once a month online to discuss topics determined by the participants. A variety of formats are possible: reading group style discussions, open discussions of a given topic, presentation of one's work, discussion of possible common future projects...
We aim to create a safer space for the sharing of knowledge and ideas and to foster an open discussion, avoiding hierarchies (of knowledge, status, institutional ones, etc.) as much as possible.
For more information on the RG, please see the following document.
To join the mailing list, write to: Anna Ceschi ([email protected]) or Katja Čičigoj ([email protected]).
Simone de Beauvoir (on right) with militants of the Mouvement de Liberation des Femmes at the day of Denunciation of Crimes Committed Against Women, Paris, May 13, 1972. (Photo by Mariza de Athayde, in Feminist Revolution).
Upcoming
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Title of the presentation
Beauvoir's Theory of Phenomenological Sacrifice Abstract I will present an excerpt from a larger paper entitled "Beauvoir's Theory of Phenomenological Sacrifice" in which I argue that Beauvoir’s Ethics of Ambiguity offers an account of a phenomenological and political form of sacrifice that occurs in modern political-ethical decision making. I reconstruct Beauvoir’s theory of sacrifice in order to identify modern and rational sacrifice as a critical though under-examined aspect of Beauvoir’s political thought, and to reposition Beauvoir’s relationship to Hegelian social and political philosophy. I will first identify Hegel and Beauvoir's shared conception of the antinomies of modern consciousness, and subsequently analyze Beauvoir's presentation of the way that this antinomic consciousness plays out in the minds of ethical actors during modern political struggles. I am hoping to learn a bit more from the Beauvoir and Marxism group what Beauvoir's interaction with Marxism looked like, as I see Beauvoir's implicit uptake of Marxist conceptions of social transformation as a missing link in this paper. Suggested readings
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Past
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April 17, 2025
Time: 4:30pm Topic: William Artz, "Marxian Economics is it a Literary Matter at All?" March 20, 2025 Time: 4:30pm Topic: Anna Ceschi, "Beauvoir and the Problem of Realism in Postwar France" February 20, 2025 Time 10am CET Topic: Sally Scholz, "The Second Sex at 75: Freedom at War" January 16, 2025 Time 10am CET Topic: Farhan Cundi Idris, "Negri, Beauvoir, and Biopolitical Production" December 19, 2024 Time 10am CET Topic: Miguel Herrera Chario, "Woman in The Second Sex: Liberation or Destruction?" May 15, 2024 Time: 20:00 CET / 14.00 EST summer time / 4.00 (May 16) Melbourne Topic: Marxism in/and The Second Sex. Link to the shared document April 17, 2024 Time: 20:00 CET / 15.00 EST summer time / 6.00 (April 17) Melbourne Topic: Marxism in/and The Second Sex Link to the shared document March 15, 2024 Topic: Marxism in/and The Second Sex Link to the shared document February 19, 2024 Topic: Beauvoir and US Second Wave Feminism Link to the shared document January 19, 2024 Topic: Kick off meeting Link to the shared document |
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