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Beauvoir and Plato

the clinic and the cave

Edward Fullbrook , Kate Fullbrook

pp. 53-65

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.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-9753-1_4

Full citation:

Fullbrook, E. , Fullbrook, K. (2001)., Beauvoir and Plato: the clinic and the cave, in L. Embree (ed.), The existential phenomenology of Simone de Beauvoir, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 53-65.

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