The Second Sex¶

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Author or institution: Simone de Beauvoir

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• Intentionality, selfhood & personhood
• Emotion, desire, moral psychology, responsibility, blame & punishment
• Suffering, death, meaning, flourishing & liberation
• Social ontology, power & oppression: race, gender, class, caste, disability
• Existential philosophy
• Feminist philosophy