Simone de Beauvoir’s Ethics and Postmodern Ambiguity: The Assertion of Freedom in the Face of the Absurd

Patrick Slattery, Marla Morris

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Abstract

Despite de Beauvoir's language of bifurcations in her writings, she actually initiates a process of deconstructing Cartesian distinctions between the individual and society, past and present, present and future, means and ends, and ethics and freedom. The paper reconceptualizes her book, "The Ethics of Ambiguity," proposing a movement toward revisioning freedom and ambiguity in discussing ethics in contemporary education.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalEducational Theory
Volume49
StatePublished - 1999

Keywords

  • Absurd
  • Assertion
  • Ethics
  • Face
  • Freedom
  • Postmodern ambiguity
  • Simone de Beauvoir

DC Disciplines

  • Curriculum and Instruction

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