Simone de Beauvoir's Case for Philosophical Autonomy and the Possibilities within the Metaphysical Novel

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  • Juliana de Albuquerque Katz Tel Aviv University

Abstract

The work intends to prove a case of Beauvoir's autonomy in relation to Sartre by offering an account of the fundamental role that Literature, Philosophy and their liaison, played on her development as a philosopher whose intellectual production has an importance of its own.

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo apresentar uma defesa da autonomia intelectual de Simone de Beauvoir em relação ao pensamento de Jean-Paul Sartre. Para isso, será feita uma breve análise do papel que literatura e filosofia possuem no desenvolvimento da obra beauvoariana, demonstrando que a sua produção intelectual carrega em si uma importância própria.

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Juliana de Albuquerque Katz, Tel Aviv University

Juliana de Albuquerque Katz is a graduate student (M.A) in Philosophy at Tel Aviv University (Israel) where she currently researches the reception of Leibnizian Philosophy by Hegel and the Philosophy of German Idealism. She is a member of the of French-German project "Jurisprudenz und Logik / Théorie du droit et Logique" (Konstanz/Lille III), and she is an academic assistant at the chair of Ancient Legal History and Modern Private Law at the University of Konstanz (Germany);

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Published

2013-02-01

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Katz, J. de A. (2013). Simone de Beauvoir’s Case for Philosophical Autonomy and the Possibilities within the Metaphysical Novel. Sapere Aude - Journal of Philosophy, 3(6), 136–147. Retrieved from https://periodicos.pucminas.br/SapereAude/article/view/4734

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Vol. 3 No. 6 (2012): DOSSIÊ SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

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ARTIGOS/ARTICLES: DOSSIÊ/DOSSIER

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