Laura Hengehold is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA. She has published numerous articles on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of sexuality using perspectives from Continental European and African thinkers. She is the author of The Body Problematic: Kant and Foucault on Political Imagination (Penn State University Press, 2007), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Blackwell/Polity, 2017). She has also edited, co-edited, and translated works of Francophone African philosophy, including authors Jean Godefroy Bidima, Seloua Luste Boulbina, and Dénétem Touam Bona.

Beginning from Gilles Deleuze’s definition of philosophy as “an exercise in the creation of concepts,” as she writes in the conclusion, Hengehold (philosophy, Case Western Reserve Univ.) contends that Beauvoir’s life and writings participate in the generation of concepts including otherness, reciprocity, ambiguity, transcendence, oppression, and complicity … Summing up: recommended.

• List of Abbreviations1. Introduction: Blocked SingularitiesPhenomenologySense and the EventHistoricity of the Problem2. The Problem of Sexist SenseRepresentation and the Creation of ConceptsTranscendenceConceptual personae and the Prephilosophical Plane3. Lived ExperienceConsciousness and habitVarieties of ImmanenceMaternityWorkNarcissism, Love, and Mysticism4. The Freedom of OthersPyrrhus and CineasThe Ethics of AmbiguityCommunication and RecognitionTransindividualityBack to Mitsein5. Territories and AssemblagesPhilosophy and Literary ProblemsAmbiguities of sexUniversal or Just Common?6. Virtual ConflictsEthics and Politics from the MilieuEqual how?Whose History? Which Event?What can Institutions do?7. ConclusionWorks CitedIndex

Laura Hengehold is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA. She has published numerous articles on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of sexuality using perspectives from Continental European and African thinkers. She is the author of The Body Problematic: Kant and Foucault on Political Imagination (Penn State University Press, 2007), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Blackwell/Polity, 2017). She has also edited, co-edited, and translated works of Francophone African philosophy, including authors Jean Godefroy Bidima, Seloua Luste Boulbina, and Dénétem Touam Bona.

Beginning from Gilles Deleuze’s definition of philosophy as “an exercise in the creation of concepts,” as she writes in the conclusion, Hengehold (philosophy, Case Western Reserve Univ.) contends that Beauvoir’s life and writings participate in the generation of concepts including otherness, reciprocity, ambiguity, transcendence, oppression, and complicity … Summing up: recommended.

• List of Abbreviations1. Introduction: Blocked SingularitiesPhenomenologySense and the EventHistoricity of the Problem2. The Problem of Sexist SenseRepresentation and the Creation of ConceptsTranscendenceConceptual personae and the Prephilosophical Plane3. Lived ExperienceConsciousness and habitVarieties of ImmanenceMaternityWorkNarcissism, Love, and Mysticism4. The Freedom of OthersPyrrhus and CineasThe Ethics of AmbiguityCommunication and RecognitionTransindividualityBack to Mitsein5. Territories and AssemblagesPhilosophy and Literary ProblemsAmbiguities of sexUniversal or Just Common?6. Virtual ConflictsEthics and Politics from the MilieuEqual how?Whose History? Which Event?What can Institutions do?7. ConclusionWorks CitedIndex