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Being and becoming: Butler reads de Beauvoir

Abstract

My starting point in this article is to examine how a quasi-homophony with the consecrated statement by Simone de Beauvoir ( on ne n’aît pas femme, on devient ) helps consider the radicality of her thought, which Judith Butler affirmed the French philosopher was not able to anticipate. This radicality as the power of Beauvoir's thought is what animates the path taken by the text, whose ultimate goal is to dismantle the fallacy of the so-called “gender ideology” and to accentuate the strength of Beauvoir's philosophy in the contemporary political context.

Simone de Beauvoir; Judith Butler; Feminist Theory; Existentialism; Freedom

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