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Anonymity
Author_Laura Hengehold
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feminist theory
forthcoming
individuation
phenomenology
recognition
Simone de Beauvoir
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- ISBN 9781399545464
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2026
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Anonymity is a condition that both intrigues and terrifies us. Such emotions reflect historical inequities of power as well as the limits of human cognition and imagination. How do they affect women’s relationships at the emotional, philosophical, and political level? How might they inflect women’s responses to bullying, economic and academic competition, and even philosophical teaching and writing?
Laura Hengehold uses Simone de Beauvoir’s novels and philosophical texts to provide insights into women’s hopes and fears regarding anonymity, while also acknowledging their desire to be recognized in a definitive sense as these particular human beings. In an age of rapidly changing identification technologies, Beauvoir’s works turn our attention to women’s ongoing struggles to individuate from one another and from men, in defiance of the presuppositions that resources and attention are scarce goods.
Laura Hengehold is Professor of Philosophy at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, USA. She has published numerous articles on political philosophy, feminist philosophy, and philosophy of sexuality using perspectives from Continental European and African thinkers. She is the author of The Body Problematic: Kant and Foucault on Political Imagination (Penn State University Press, 2007), Simone de Beauvoir’s Philosophy of Individuation (Edinburgh University Press, 2017), and co-editor of the Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir (Blackwell/Polity, 2017). She has also edited, co-edited, and translated works of Francophone African philosophy, including authors Jean Godefroy Bidima, Seloua Luste Boulbina, and Dénétem Touam Bona.
