Since her death in 1986 and the publication of her letters and diaries in 1990, interest in the philosophy of Simone de Beauvoir has never been greater. In this engaging and timely volume, Margaret A. Simons and an international group of philosophers present 16 essays that reveal Beauvoir as one of the century's most important and influential thinkers. As they set Beauvoir's work into dialogue with Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Heidegger, Foucault, Levinas, and others, these essays consider questions such as Beauvoir's philosophical relationship with Sartre; her ethic of the erotic; her views on marriage, motherhood, and female friendship; and her interpretations of oppression and liberation. This book discusses the full range of Beauvoir's work, including The Second Sex, her unpublished diaries, autobiographical writings, novels, and philosophical essays, and broadens the scope and interpretive context of her unique philosophy.
Contributors are Nancy Bauer, Debra Bergoffen, Suzanne Laba Cataldi, Edward Fullbrook, Eva Gothlin, Sara Heinämaa, Laura Hengehold, Stacy Keltner, Michèle Le Doeuff, Ann Murphy, Shannon M. Mussett, Margaret A. Simons, Ursula Tidd, Andrea Veltman, Karen Vintges, Julie Ward, Gail Weiss.

Acknowledgments
IntroductionMargaret A. Simons
1. Engaging with Simone de BeauvoirMichèle Le Doeuff
2. Simone de Beauvoir's Phenomenology of Sexual DifferenceSara Heinämaa
3. She Came to Stay and Being and NothingnessEdward Fullbrook
4. Beauvoir's Heideggerian OntologyNancy Bauer
5. Marriage, Autonomy, and the Feminine ProtestDebra B. Bergoffen
6. Transcendence and Immanence in the Ethics of Simone de BeauvoirAndrea Veltman
7. Beauvoir and Sartre on Appeal, Desire, and AmbiguityEva Gothlin
8. Reciprocity and Friendship in Beauvoir's ThoughtJulie K. Ward
9. Sexuality Situated: Beauvoir on "Frigidity"Suzanne Laba Cataldi
10. Beauvoir's Parrhesiastic Contracts: Frank-speaking and the Philosophical-Political CoupleLaura Hengehold
11. Beauvoir's Idea of AmbiguityStacy Keltner
12. Simone de Beauvoir: A Feminist Thinker for the Twenty-first CenturyKaren Vintges
13. The Self-Other Relation in Beauvoir's Ethics and AutobiographyUrsula Tidd
14. Challenging Choices: An Ethic of OppressionGail Weiss
15. Between Generosity and Violence: Toward a Revolutionary Politics in the Philosophy of Simone de BeauvoirAnn V. Murphy
16. Conditions of Servitude: Woman's Peculiar Role in the Master-Slave Dialectic in Beauvoir's The Second SexShannon M. Mussett
List of Contributors
Index

Margaret A. Simons is Professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. She is a founding editor of Hypatia and editor of a seven-volume English translation of Simone de Beauvoir's writings.