immanence / transcendance
Beauvoir's pair: confinement in one's given situation as a passive object versus acting on the world to go beyond it.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Transcendence, a notion Beauvoir carries over from her religious childhood, becomes possible only by accepting freedom, finitude and responsibility in this life, not in any afterlife.
Put simply Beauvoir keeps a word from her religious childhood, "transcendence": going beyond. But for her it is possible only by accepting freedom, mortality and responsibility in this life, not in any afterlife.
Beauvoir holds women partly responsible for their own subordination: too often they shrink in bad faith from freedom's burden, remaining the inessential and accepting the object role.
Put simply Beauvoir: women are partly responsible for their own subordination. Too often, lying to themselves, they shy away from the burden of freedom, stay secondary to men and accept being treated as objects.
Beauvoir writes that woman must choose between affirming her transcendence and alienating herself as an object: she is no puppet of clashing drives, whatever Freud says.
Put simply Beauvoir: a woman must choose between asserting her power to go beyond her situation ("transcendence") and turning herself into an object. Whatever Freud says, she is not a puppet of conflicting drives.
Beauvoir's immanence and transcendence, as Shore reads them, work roughly like Sartre's in-itself and for-itself, with a somewhat different twist: immanence is bound up with facticity.
Put simply Shore: Beauvoir's "immanence" (staying stuck, passive) and "transcendence" (going beyond) work roughly like Sartre's fixed "in-itself" and free "for-itself." The twist: immanence is tied to the given facts of one's situation.
"All oppression creates a state of war": woman, shut in immanence, once tried to lock man in with her; now, Beauvoir says, she fights to get out, toward transcendence.
Put simply Beauvoir: "All oppression creates a state of war." Woman, shut into a passive, confined life ("immanence"), once tried to keep man shut in with her. Now she fights to get out, toward freedom to act.
Links from these claims to others in the course. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
BeauvoirThe root of oppression, for Beauvoir, is the urge to escape oneself: we flee our own subjectivity by alienating ourselves in an Other. L16 · 43:34
BeauvoirBeauvoir holds women partly responsible for their own subordination: too often they shrink in bad faith from freedom's burden, remaining the inessential and accepting the object role. L16 · 32:42
Root cause of oppression as flight from freedom yields the charge that women share responsibility by fleeing into the object role.
HeideggerThe they-self (das-Man-Selbst) has fallen into the world: lost in gossip, trivial curiosity and vague indecision, its being taken over by others, it "must first find itself." L12 · 35:03
BeauvoirBeauvoir holds women partly responsible for their own subordination: too often they shrink in bad faith from freedom's burden, remaining the inessential and accepting the object role. L16 · 32:42
Shore glosses Beauvoir's temptation to remain the object as a kind of Heideggerian falling into the they-self.
Terms that appear in the same claims.