Simone de Beauvoir · Philosophy
Beauvoir’s deepest structural claim: throughout history, man has set himself up as the <em>Subject</em>, the absolute, the standard human being - and defined woman as the <em>Other</em>, the secondary, relative, inessential being defined only in relation to him. “He is the Subject, he is the Absolute - she is the Other.”
You learned Beauvoir’s structural thesis: man has cast himself as the essential Subject (the One) and woman as the inessential Other, defined only relative to him. Explain what ‘the Other’ means, why woman’s Othering is peculiarly hard to overthrow, and how it differs from other oppressions.
Leads to Hegel.
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