Days and Nights of a New Mother: Existentialism in the Nursery

Elizabeth Butterfield

doi:10.1002/9781444324525.ch5

Days and Nights of a New Mother: Existentialism in the Nursery

Elizabeth Butterfield

Philosophy & Religious Studies

Georgia Southern University

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	Motherhood - Philosophy for Everyone
Subtitle of host publication	The Birth of Wisdom
Publisher	Wiley-Blackwell
Pages	63-76
Number of pages	14
ISBN (Print)	9781444330281
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444324525.ch5
State	Published - Aug 13 2010

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Beauvoir, an atheist's insistence - absence of a God, and no such thing as an objectively true value
Beyond the "ideal mother" - creating our own identities
Complex relation of individual and the social - in her book, The Ethics of Ambiguity
Crucial element of our situation - in relation to others, in one way or another
Days and nights of a new mother - existentialism in the nursery
Labor pains - the work and wonder of being a mom
Maternal condition - and freedom in situation
Neither is being a mother nothing - the category of "mother" not dismissed as simply meaningless
Serious man's goal of escaping anxiety - being doomed to failure
Serious mothers, vulnerable to certain problems - freely choosing to deny their own freedom

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