Review: Simone de Beauvoir's Philosophy of Age [Book Review]

Hypatia Reviews Online 57 (2016)
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Led by the conviction that Beauvoir's The Coming of Age (1970) has been overshadowed by The Second Sex for too long, this book sets out to redress that neglect and to bring Beauvoir's reflections on old age into dialogue with different perspectives and approaches in feminist philosophy. It does so superbly. Several secondary works on Beauvoir discuss The Coming of Age, including The Cambridge Companion to Beauvoir, Stella Stanford's How to Read Beauvoir, and (from a literary perspective) Oliver Davis's Age Rage and Going Gently, but there is no similarly comprehensive treatment of Beauvoir's philosophy of age. [...]

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