S. Heinämaa : ‘Simone de Beauvoir’s Phenomenology of Sexual Difference’

This essay by Sara Heinämaa offers a phenomenological (re)reading of Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex. I doubt anyone is writing on Beauvoir in this class, but that doesn’t mean Heinämaa is useless to you! If you are writing on the phenomenological movement in general or the “aim” of philosophy in general, you [...]

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Phenomenology in contemporary context

Let’s start with everyone’s first query: what is phenomenology?
Well, this course is dedicated to answering that question. Yet, as we shall see throughout our readings, the very question “what is phenomenology?” is problematized by the sheer diversity of the movement’s literature, as well as something inherent in the phenomenological method.

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