Beauvoir and Plato
the clinic and the cave
pp. 53-65
Abstract
This essay explores the ways in which Simone de Beauvoir uses Plato's allegory of the cave as a template through which to introduce her concept of embodied consciousness into twentieth-century philosophy.
Publication details
Published in:
Embree Lester (2001) The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 53-65
DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9753-1_4
Full citation:
Fullbrook Edward, Fullbrook Kate (2001) „Beauvoir and Plato: the clinic and the cave“, In: L. Embree (ed.), The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer, 53–65.