Today I am doing parts of The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir in my Intro to Philosophy classes.
If Sartre comes (I did Sartre last class) can Simone be far behind? tongue emoticon
As I read from her book, I was struck by the exhilarating literary style of writing she has. An example:
"Wherever life is in the making--germination, fermentation--it arouses disgust because it is made only in being destroyed; the slimy embryo begins the cycle that is completed in the putrefaction of death."
Now both Freud and Kafka would've been happy with this formulation smile emoticon It's interesting to see, apart from the feminist core of her argument, how much of existentialist ontology and psychoanalytic mythology are built into it.
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