What Is Hegel the Name Of?: De Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Search for an Embodied Universal

Viola Carofalo

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What Is Hegel the Name Of?

De Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Search for an Embodied Universal

In: Against the âLaw of the Fatherâ

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Pages:: 54â72

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.30965/9783846769362_005

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This paper aims to examine the relationship between Hegelâs philosophy (and figure) and feminist thought. In particular, it seeks to reflect on the relationship between the critique of universalism and so-called âidentity politics.â

Through critical and comparative analysis of thinkers such as Irigaray and McKinnon, we will attempt to demonstrate the relevance and effectiveness of de Beauvoirâs approach. De Beauvoir, seemingly superseded by the philosophy of difference, actually anticipates the intersectional perspective and the integration between the particular and the universal.

In the intertwining of philosophical speculation and autobiographical writing, she thus paves the way for the possibility of an embodied universal.

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Against the âLaw of the Fatherâ

Hegel's Disobedient Readings

Series:Â HegelForum, Studien

E-Book ISBN:: 9783846769362

Publisher:: Brill | Fink

Print Publication Date:: 02 Feb 2026

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  - German Idealism

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Part I Genealogies of Early Resistance

Part II Feminist Deconstructions of Hegelian Discourse

Part III Embodied Aesthetics, Ecology and Sensible Worlds

Part IV Revolutions, and Counter-Narratives

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De Beauvoir, Irigaray, and the Search for an Embodied Universal

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